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Author : Grant H. Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (552 download)
Download or read book The History of the Comstock Lode written by Grant H. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald M. James
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Roar and the Silence written by Ronald M. James and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Comstock's life - from the people who produced the wealth, to those who created a community of families, tradesmen, and mining professionals. It examines ethnic communities and the life styles of a population that ranged from millionaire silver barons to ragpickers and scavengers.
Author : Dan De Quille
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of the Comstock Silver Lode & Mines, Nevada and the Great Basin Region written by Dan De Quille and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William R. Huber
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476638403
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Adolph Sutro written by William R. Huber and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolph Sutro was forever seeking challenges. Emigrating from Prussia to the U.S. at age 20, the California gold rush lured him west. At the Comstock Lode in Nevada, he conceived an idea for a tunnel to drain the hot water that made the mines perilous and inefficient. But he would have to overcome both physical obstacles and powerful opposition by the Bank of California to realize his vision. Back in San Francisco, Sutro bought one twelfth of the city, including the famous Cliff House perched over the Pacific Ocean. When it burned to cinders on Christmas Day, 1894, he built a massive, eight-story Victorian replacement. He used his expertise in tunneling and water solutions to create the world's largest enclosed swimming structure, the Sutro Baths--six glass-covered heated saltwater pools with capacity of 1,000 swimmers. Other challenges followed but Sutro was not invincible. After a two-year term as mayor of San Francisco, he succumbed to debilitating strokes which left him senile. His death in 1898 started disputes among his heirs--six children by his wife and two by his mistress--that lasted more than a decade.
Author : William Wright
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342816903
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (169 download)
Download or read book History of the Big Bonanza written by William Wright and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Dan de Quille
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368925229
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (689 download)
Download or read book A History of the Comstock Silver Lode & Mines written by Dan de Quille and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Author : Grant Horace Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of the Comstock Lode 1850-1920 written by Grant Horace Smith and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grant H. Smith
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ISBN 13 : 9781258936204
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (362 download)
Download or read book The History of the Comstock Lode, 1850-1920 written by Grant H. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
Author : Ronald M. James
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874174481
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Comstock Women written by Ronald M. James and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Dennis Drabelle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mile-High Fever written by Dennis Drabelle and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the captivating true story of the Comstock Lode, Drabelle skillfully brings to life the exploration of the large vein of silver in the northwestern U.S. that sparked the Silver Rush from 1859-1882. "Mile-High Fever" brings to light one of the least-known episodes in American history.
Author : John Adams Church
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Comstock Lode, Its Formation and History written by John Adams Church and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grant Horace Smith
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 9781888035049
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The History of the Comstock Lode, 1850-1997 written by Grant Horace Smith and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Dan De Quille
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book History of the Big Bonanza written by Dan De Quille and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic book of the discovery and mining of silver and gold on the Comstock Lode by the editor of the Territorial Enterprise.
Author : Ronald M. James
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803240082
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Virginia City written by Ronald M. James and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Wells Drury
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Editor on the Comstock Lode written by Wells Drury and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : NV Bureau of Mines & Geology
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book SP024: The History of the Comstock Lode 1850-1920 written by and published by NV Bureau of Mines & Geology. This book was released on with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Dunlap Lyman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Saga of the Comstock Lode written by George Dunlap Lyman and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
