Author: Grant H. SmithPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The History of the Comstock Lode
Author: Grant H. SmithThe History of the Comstock Lode 1850-1920
Author: Grant Horace SmithPublisher:
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Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Included are research notes, correspondence, production tables, and clippings either about Smith's Comstock book or used by Smith to write his book. Subjects researched include John W. Mackay, James G. Fair, business as well as technical aspects of mining in the Comstock Lode, details about individual mines, lists of production figures for the mines, data on the cost of production figures for the mines, data on the cost of living, and information on wood and water companies; typescripts of original correspondence and documents are also present.
The Roar and the Silence
Author: Ronald M. JamesPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874174171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
Nevada’s Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West’s quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the Comstock is far more complex and interesting than its colorful image. Contrary to legend, Virginia City spent only its first few years as a ramshackle mining camp. The mining boom quickly turned it into a thriving urban center, at its peak one of the largest cities west of the Mississippi, replete with most of the amenities of any large city of its time. The lure of the area’s fabulous wealth attracted a remarkably heterogenous population from around the world and offered employment to dozens of trades and thousands of people, both men and women, representing every one of the region’s diverse ethnic groups. Ronald James’s brilliant account of the Comstock’s long and eventful history—the first comprehensive study of the subject in over a century—examines every aspect of the region and employs information gleaned from hundreds of written sources, interviews, archeological research, computer analysis, folklore, gender studies, physical geography, and architectural and art history, as well as over fifty rare photographs, many of them previously unpublished.
A History of the Comstock Silver Lode & Mines, Nevada and the Great Basin Region
Author: Dan De QuillePublisher:
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Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
"The central idea in the preparation of this little book has been to give, as concisely as possible, such information in regard to the silver mines of the Comstock as the visiting tourist is likely to require." -- introductory.
History of the Big Bonanza
Author: William WrightPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016168595
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Comstock Women
Author: Ronald M. JamesPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874174481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
When it comes to Nevada history, men get most of the ink. Comstock Women is a collection of 14 historical studies that helps to rectify that reality. The authors of these essays, who include some of Nevada’s most prominent historians, demographers, and archaeologists, explore such topics as women and politics, jobs, and ethnic groups. Their work goes far in refuting the exaggerated popular images of women in early mining towns as dance hall girls or prostitutes. Relying primarily on newspapers, court decisions, census records, as well as sparse personal diaries and records left by the woman, the essayists have resurrected the lives of the women who lived on the Comstock during the boom years.
SP024: The History of the Comstock Lode 1850-1920
Author: Publisher: NV Bureau of Mines & Geology
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Sun Mountain
Author: Richard S. WheelerPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812580112
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Drawn to Virginia City, Nevada, and its Comstock Lode in the early 1860s, journalist Henry Stoddard mingles with mining titans, speculators, and bankers as well as the men who descend into the dark earth to wrest the gold riches from it. Among those he meets are a young Missourian named Sam Clemens, a reporter for the "Territorial Enterprise" who would transform himself into Mark Twain. (August)
Virginia City
Author: Ronald M. JamesPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803240082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Spent cartridges. The pieces of an original Tabasco Pepper Sauce bottle. Shards of a ceramic pot, stained red. For archaeologists each of the thousands of artifacts uncovered at a site tells a story. For noted Comstock authority Ronald M. James, it is a story resulting from decades of research and excavation at one of the largest National Historic Landmarks in America, the Nevada town that, with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, became a boomtown microcosm of the American West. Drawing on the work of hundreds of volunteers, students, and professional archaeologists, Virginia City: Secrets of a Western Past shows how every detail—from unearthed artifacts to reports of local saloons to plans for the cemetery to surviving nineteenth-century buildings—adds to our view of Virginia City when it was one of the richest places on earth. James recreates this unlikely epitome of frontier industry and cosmopolitan living, the thriving hub of corporate executives, middle-class families, miners, prostitutes, and barkeepers—and more foreign-born residents per capita than anywhere else in the country—in a spot that had begun its life a few years earlier as the mining camp of several lucky guys. An excavation of the history of Virginia City, a window on the heyday of the American frontier, James’s book is also an enlightening look at how archaeology brings the story of the past to life.
An Editor on the Comstock Lode
Author: Wells DruryPublisher:
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Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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