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physical geography, and architectural and art history, as well as over fifty rare photographs, many of them previously unpublished.
Download or read book OF1987 06 Mining history and place names of the Comstock area a field trip guidebook September 19 1987 written by and published by NV Bureau of Mines & Geology. This book was released on with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Comstock Lode District Nevada written by N. S. Beaton and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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.
Download or read book Outline of the Geology of the Comstock Lode District Nevada written by Frank C. Calkins and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Geology of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe District with Atlas written by George Ferdinand Becker and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Mining Districts of Nevada s Comstock written by Austin E. Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comstock Place Names written by Mary B. Ansari and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geology of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe District written by Becker George F. and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GEOLOGY OF THE COMSTOCK LODE AND THE WASHOE DISTRICT written by GEORGE F. BECKER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Nevada Heartland written by Mary B. Ansari and published by LeRue Books. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one writing today knows more about the geographic names of northwestern Nevada's core historic section than Mary Ansari. Beginning in the mid-1980s, she published four volumes about the place names of Storey, Ormsby (now Carson City), Lyon, and Douglas counties, as well as a book about the names of mines and mills of the Comstock. These exhaustively researched publications provided the most complete information up to then about the names found on maps of those counties - their origins, meanings, and even data on important events or personalities associated with them.Now, she has revised and expanded the material from her earlier books and brought it together in a new work that is the definitive place name reference for what is really the "heartland" of Nevada, the area where the state's initial nineteenth century economic, political, and community development occurred.
Download or read book The Comstock District Storey County Nevada written by Donald M. Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book B029 Geology of the Silver City District and the Southern Portion of the Comstock Lode Nevada written by Vincent Paul Gianella and published by NV Bureau of Mines & Geology. This book was released on 1937 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geology of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe District written by Becker and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
