A wild Western town of "blood-and-thunder" repute  with 28 saloons, two dance houses, 16 package stores, one gun-toting town marshal and up to 80 "nymphs du pave"  Corinne provided entertainment and distraction for constant streams of "floating populations," those miners, railroad men, gandy dancers, shippers, freighters and tourists, as well as the "sporting" crowds that came from as far away as Elko.