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Author : John C. Walsh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Virginia City Community Complex (Virginia City, Nevada) written by John C. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Muessig
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Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Community Or Chaos? written by Hans Muessig and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Old Washoe Club written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald M. James
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738569703
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Virginia City and the Big Bonanza written by Ronald M. James and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Virginia City and its Comstock Lode, miners worked one of the richest deposits of gold and silver ever found. Many places claim that title, but the precious metals retrieved between 1859 and 1880, with an equivalent value today in the billions of dollars, played an unprecedented role in industrial history. With cutting-edge technology, Comstock engineers shaped mining throughout the world for the next 50 years. Virginia City's wealth propelled several people to Congress and others into the nation's highest society. At the same time, those who settled in the mining district built a civilized, sophisticated place. Drawing on former glories, the popular television series Bonanza perpetuated the legend, capturing international audiences with 14 seasons of programs. As one of the nation's largest historic landmarks, the Comstock continues to welcome millions of visitors.
Author : Ronald M. James
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874174171
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book The Roar and the Silence written by Ronald M. James and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Sandie La Nae
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329554094
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Weird "Haunted" Virginia City written by Sandie La Nae and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I term my books "Historic-Paranormal." There is extensive research involved for the history sections, and the paranormal segment information are from the findings Paranormal team I am part of - Thin Veil Investigators - discovered. Nevada Historical Society's Docent and Special Works/Projects Historian, and I are creating particular "Weird" volumes. "Weird 'Haunted' Virginia City" is NOT a cute ghost-story-telling book. This volume recites from extensive research into factual incidents, presenting some of the bazaar, strange and odd passing of personages, including cases of inhumane behaviors to fellow residents, as well as descriptions, reports and anecdotes of some of the major destruction that occurred during the city's "halcyon days." These pages offer the reader a compelling insight that may show a contributing relationship to the numerous spirit presences involving themselves in earthly matters throughout this very haunted location: Virginia City, Nevada.
Author : Ronald M. James
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874179483
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Virginia City written by Ronald M. James and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1859, Virginia City quickly became world famous for its extraordinary prosperity. Over the next two decades, the mines of “the Richest City on Earth” yielded millions in gold and silver. The newly wealthy built mansions and churches, opera houses and schools, with furniture, fashions, and entertainment imported from Europe and the Far East. Here young Samuel Clemens, reporting for the Territorial Enterprise in 1863, first called himself Mark Twain. At its height Virginia City was a magnet for immigrants and the world leader in technological innovations in mining. The city’s story did not end when the Comstock Lode played out. Beginning in the 1930s, bohemian artists, literati, and tourists were intrigued by this remnant of the Old West. The leader of Manhattan’s café society, Lucius Beebe, moved here and relaunched the Territorial Enterprise in 1950. Television’s most popular western from 1959 to 1973, Bonanza, located its fictional Ponderosa Ranch nearby. In the summer of 1965, a handful of Bay Area musicians, including Big Brother and the Holding Company, performed at the Red Dog Saloon and launched psychedelic rock, part of the inspiration for a defining decade of youth culture. Today it is both a National Historic Landmark District and a living community. Visitors come to enjoy its saloons and restaurants, admire its architecture, and learn from its museums and exhibits. A Short History of Virginia City will enhance their experience and will also be enjoyed by anyone interested in the history of Nevada, mining, and the Old West. • Includes an illustrated walking tour describing more than thirty buildings and sites
Download or read book Old Washoe Club, Virginia City Historic District, Virginia City, Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Kelly J. Dixon
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874176395
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Boomtown Saloons written by Kelly J. Dixon and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of Old West saloons as sites of violence and raucous entertainment has been perpetuated by film and legend, but the true story of such establishments is far more complex. In Boomtown Saloons, archaeologist Kelly J. Dixon recounts the excavation of four historic saloon sites in Nevada’s Virginia City, one of the West’s most important boomtowns, and shows how the physical traces of this handful of disparate drinking places offer a new perspective on authentic life in the mining West. During the second half of the nineteenth century, the Comstock Lode’s mineral wealth attracted people from all over the world. At its peak, Virginia City had a cosmopolitan population of over 20,000 people. Like people everywhere, they sought to pass their leisure time in congenial company, often in one or another of the four saloons studied here. Dixon’s account of the role these four establishments played in the social and economic life of Virginia City offers keen insight into the businesses and people who made up the backdrop of a mining boomtown. The saloons in this study were quieter than legend would have us believe; they served relatively distinct groups and offered their customers a place of refuge, solidarity, and social contact with peers in a city where few people had longtime ties or initially any close contacts. Boomtown Saloons also offers an equally vivid portrait of the modern historical archaeologist who combines time-honored digging, reconstruction, and analysis methods with such cutting-edge technology as DNA analysis of saliva traces on a 150-year-old pipestem and chemical analysis of the residue in discarded condiment bottles. The book is illustrated with historical photographs and maps, as well as photographs of artifacts uncovered during the excavations of the four sites. Dixon’s sparkling text and thoughtful interpretation of evidence reveal an unknown aspect of daily life in one of the West’s most storied boomtowns and demonstrate that, contrary to legend, the traditional western saloon served an vital and complex social role in its community.Available in hardcover and paperback.
Author : Eliot Lord
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Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Drama of Virginia City written by Eliot Lord and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter B. Mires
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439671443
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Wicked Virginia City written by Peter B. Mires and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perched on the side of a mountain in the Nevada desert, Virginia City existed for one reason only: to make money. The mining frenzy of the mid-nineteenth century uncovered veins of precious metals that would be expressed in billions today, attracting the enterprising madam Cad Thompson, the charismatic highwayman Nickanora and a plethora of swindlers. Miners, flush with their wages, supported a healthy economy of gambling, drinking and prostitution and even launched a few political careers. Sam Clemens, who became Mark Twain while reporting for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, called it "the livest town that America had ever produced." Join author Peter B. Mires as he explores the seamy side of this quintessential mining boomtown.
Author : John David Ellingsen
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 9781591520894
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Witness to History written by John David Ellingsen and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witness to History, by Virginia City Curator Emeritus John D. Ellingsen, is a delightful and often moving book, unusual among writings on the Gold Rush era of Montana and the West. It is part history, part memoir, and part passionate essay about the importance of historic preservation. The book details the origins of Virginia City and Nevada City their rough beginnings and their glory days. It also offers a unique perspective on the restoration and saving of Virginia and Nevada Cities by a man who has dedicated his entire life to that cause. More than two dozen historical photographs help to tell one of the most significant stories of historic preservation in the western United States.
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
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Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Master Register of Bicentennial Projects, February 1976 written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sanborn Map Company
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Virginia City and Gold Hill, Storey County, Nevada written by Sanborn Map Company and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth Hermann
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ISBN 13 : 9780936332048
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Virginia City, Nevada, Revisited written by Ruth Hermann and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy F. Cott
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110976366
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Prostitution written by Nancy F. Cott and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Prostitution".
