Reno.

Bill Shear remembers what brought him to Nevada in the first place. As a young attorney, then known as William Shayne, he represented silver miners. He met and married Jessie Gibbs and became a father, but when the silver went bust, he created a new identity for Reno as a place where unhappily married individuals could get a quick, painless divorce. He is left alone when Jessie obtains one of those easy divorces, taking their child and leaving him.