Author: Grant Horace SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The History of the Comstock Lode, 1850-1920
Author: Grant Horace SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The History of the Comstock Lode, 1850-1920
Author: Grant H. SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258936204
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
SP024: The History of the Comstock Lode 1850-1920
Author: Publisher: NV Bureau of Mines & Geology
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The History of the Comstock Lode, 1850-1997
Author: Grant Horace SmithPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 9781888035049
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The History of the Comstock Lode, first published in 1943, provided mining investors, engineers, and western historians with the first comprehensive, chronological history of mining operations on the Comstock. Of particular note is Smith's progressive record of the ways the mines were developed, the failures encountered, the bonanzas discovered, and the production records of the mines. In addition to the invaluable mining information, The History of the Comstock Lode includes the personal histories of the colorful men of the Comstock - "Old Virginny," the ill-fated Grosh brothers, John W. Mackay, Mark Twain, Dan De Quille, and Charles Howard Shinn, to mention a few. The book also contains many rare historic photographs of the mining district. With the addition of new material by Joseph V. Tingley, which brings the history of mining operations on the Comstock to the present, The History of the Comstock Lode will once again he enjoyed by scholars and students of mining history as well as western history buffs.
The History of the Comstock Lode
Author: Grant L. SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
OF1987-06: Mining history and place names of the Comstock area, a field trip guidebook, September 19, 1987
Author: Publisher: NV Bureau of Mines & Geology
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
The Infamous King Of The Comstock
Author: Michael J. MakleyPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874176697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
William Sharon was one of the most colorful scoundrels in the nineteenth-century mining West. He epitomized the robber barons of the nation’s Gilded Age and the political corruption and moral decay for which that period remains notorious; yet he was also a visionary capitalist who controlled more than a dozen of the greatest mines on Nevada’s mighty Comstock Lode, built the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, manipulated speculation and prices on the San Francisco Stock Exchange, and revived the collapsed Bank of California. One enemy called him “a thoroughly bad man—a man entirely void of principle,” while a Comstock neighbor called him “one of the best men that ever lived in Virginia City.” Both descriptions were reasonably accurate. In this first-ever biography of one of Nevada’s most reviled historical figures, author Michael Makley examines Sharon’s complex nature and the turbulent times in which he flourished. Arriving in San Francisco shortly after the Gold Rush began, Sharon was soon involved in real estate, politics, banking, and stock speculation, and he was a party in several of the era’s most shocking business and sexual scandals. When he moved to Virginia City, Nevada’s mushrooming silver boomtown, his business dealings there soon made him known as the “King of the Comstock.” Makley’s engaging and meticulously researched account not only lays bare the life of the notorious but enigmatic Sharon but examines the broader historical context of his career—the complex business relationships between San Francisco and the booming gold and silver mining camps of the Far West; the machinations of rampant Gilded Age capitalism; and the sophisticated financial and technological infrastructure that supported Virginia City’s boomtown economy. The Infamous King of the Comstock offers a significant fresh perspective on Nevada and the mining West.
The Story of the Water Supply for the Comstock
Author: Hugh A. ShambergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Historic Resource Study, a History of Mining in Death Valley National Monument
Author: Linda W. GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Western Mining
Author: Otis E. Young, Jr.Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806113524
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Here, for the first time, is a clear account in words and pictures of the methods by which gold and silver were extracted and processed in the Old West. The author describes the early days of Spanish and Indian mining and the wild era inaugurated by the American prospector who rushed west to get rich quick, ending with the year 1893, when repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act virtually closed the mining frontier. The account gives in laymen’s language the techniques employed in prospecting, placering, lode mining, and milling, particularly those employed by the Spaniards, Indians, and Cornishmen, and shows how the ever-practical Americans adapted and improved them. Special attention is given to the methods employed in the California and Montana gold fields, Colorado and the Comstock Lode, the Black Hills, and Tombstone, Arizona. In these pages the reader also meets some of the unforgettable personalities whose lives enriched (and sometimes impoverished) the mining camps.