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Guide To Virginia City Nevada And The Comstock Lode Area
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Book Synopsis Guide to Virginia City, Nevada, and the Comstock Lode Area by : Pages of History (Firm)
Download or read book Guide to Virginia City, Nevada, and the Comstock Lode Area written by Pages of History (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to points of interest in and around Virginia City. Most of the points are mines or mining items, e.g., mills, tunnels.
Book Synopsis Guide to Virginia City, Nevada, and the Comstock Lode by : Len J. Ettinger
Download or read book Guide to Virginia City, Nevada, and the Comstock Lode written by Len J. Ettinger and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Saga of the Comstock Lode by : George Dunlap Lyman
Download or read book The Saga of the Comstock Lode written by George Dunlap Lyman and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis All That Glitters---A Kid's Guide to Virginia City, Nevada by : Penelope Dyan
Download or read book All That Glitters---A Kid's Guide to Virginia City, Nevada written by Penelope Dyan and published by Bellissima Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia City was a mining boomtown; it appeared virtually overnight as a result of the Comstock Lode silver strike of 1859, found because of the sticky mud washed from the shovels while mining for gold! During its heyday, Virginia City had more than 30,000 residents and was called the richest city in America. Virginia City is also the "birthplace" of Mark Twain, as it was here (in February 1863) that the young writer Samuel Clemens, who was then a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise newspaper, first used his famous pen name, Mark Twain. Virginia City, USA's largest National Historic Landmark, is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. President Lincoln needed gold and silver to keep the Union solvent during the Civil War, so on October 31, 1864, Lincoln made Nevada a state, even though it didn't have enough people to constitutionally authorize statehood. Take a trip to this famous city through the lens of John D. Weigand and through the verse of Penelope Dyan, who is an award winning author, attorney and former teacher. Dyan and Weigand see what kids see, and know how to grab their interest. Nothing is spoon fed here as Dyan's intent is to inspire questioning and learning, and this is what she does best, because to learn one begins with inspiration.
Book Synopsis Virginia City and the Big Bonanza by : Ronald M. James
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.
Book Synopsis Virginia City and the Silver Region of the Comstock Lode by : Douglas McDonald
Download or read book Virginia City and the Silver Region of the Comstock Lode written by Douglas McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the discovery of the Comstock Lode and the development of Virginia City in Nevada in 1859.
Book Synopsis A History of the Comstock Silver Lode & Mines, Nevada and the Great Basin Region by : Dan De Quille
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:
Book Synopsis Ghosthunters' Guide to Virginia City by : Janice Oberding
Download or read book Ghosthunters' Guide to Virginia City written by Janice Oberding and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia City is Nevada's most haunted city. Ghosts and history abound in this city built on the side of Mt. Davidson from the riches of the Comstock Lode. The famous and the infamous have walked these wooden sidewalks; the miners, and the millionaires, the gunslingers, the ladies of the evening, and everyone else who dreamed of silver. Here in Virginia City, Mark Twain began his writing career, and witnessed the public hanging of a convicted killer. Some say his lonely ghost still walks these streets. He is not alone. Hauntings are everyday occurrences on the Comstock. When the sun goes down, the ghosts are lively; especially in Virginia City.
Book Synopsis The Roar and the Silence by : Ronald M. James
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.
Book Synopsis Sagebrush and Silver by : T. Allan Comp
Download or read book Sagebrush and Silver written by T. Allan Comp and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Virginia City and the Big Bonanza by : Ronald M. James
Download or read book Virginia City and the Big Bonanza written by Ronald M. James and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 130 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.
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.
Book Synopsis A Short History of Virginia City by : Ronald M. James
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 Virginia City, Nevada written by and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Souvenir of the Comstock. Embracing the Principal Views of Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City and Sutro by : James H Crockwell
Download or read book Souvenir of the Comstock. Embracing the Principal Views of Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City and Sutro written by James H Crockwell and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James H. Crockwell offers a picturesque tour of the Comstock Lode mining communities in Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City, and Sutro. With stunning photographs and insightful commentary, this book brings to life the boom and bust of Nevada's rich mining history. 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.
Book Synopsis Virginia City, Nevada & the Comstock Lode by : Eliot Lord
Download or read book Virginia City, Nevada & the Comstock Lode written by Eliot Lord and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Drama of Virginia City by : Eliot Lord
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:
