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Virginia City, Silver Region of the Comstock Lode
by Douglas McDonald
The discovery and development of the West’s largest silver lode is recounted in extensive text and both line drawings and photographs. There are essays on familiar Comstock figures such as the Big Four, Adolph Sutro and the discoverers, and also information on stock manipulations, the unions, and various institutions. Camels, the V&T RR, Mark Twain, law and order, square-set mine timbering, are all featured. Old and new maps help tell the story. 128 pp. Large 9 x 12 format, 75 illus., index. (Published by Nevada Publications ~ Shipped by publisher.)
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Mining
• Aurora - Nevada's Ghost City of the Dawn • Boot Hill - The Pioche Cemetery and the Story of the Pioche Boom
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It Happened in Las Vegas
Remarkable Events that Shaped History
From the Mormon arrival in 1855 to Siegfried and Roy’s tiger attack in 2003, twenty-five events that shaped the history of the Entertainment Capital of the World....
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