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Author : Anonim
Publisher : NV Bureau of Mines & Geology
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Charles Howard Shinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5ATJ
Author : Wells Drury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000921096
Author : William R. Huber
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476638409
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 : Grant H. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:552484902
Author : Dennis Drabelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015084102352
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 : Ronald M. James
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874174175
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 : Hunt Janin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786429127
For nearly fifty years, Fort Bridger played a role in all major events of the 19th century Rocky Mountain frontier and westering experience. Founded in 1842 by mountain man Jim Bridger, this southwestern Wyoming post was one of the most important outfitting points for travelers on the Oregon Trail, riders of the Pony Express, the Overland Stage, and the Union Pacific Railroad. Trappers, buffalo hunters, Forty-niners, soldiers and outlaws would pass through what is now the Fort Bridger State Historic Site. This post, or fort, is used as a basis for an illustrated account of the Rocky Mountain West. The book explores reasons why American Indian behavior varied between helpfulness and aggression toward mountain men and emigrants. Also detailed are weapons of the frontier, Fort Bridger's role in the 1857 Mormon War, the 1867 Wind River Mountains gold rush, and the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872. Several appendices are presented, including a discussion of gender in the westering movement and a selected chronology of frontier history. Interesting and highly detailed excerpts are taken from such primary sources as a trapper's journal and an 1850 account of buffalo butchering.
Author : Joseph V. Tingley
Publisher : NV Bureau of Mines & Geology
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781888035094
Author : Marion S. Goldman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0472063324
A study of prostitution in 19th-century Virginia City
Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553899023
It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures—they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway, a radiantly beautiful actress driven by an unfulfilled need. Two fiercely independent spirits, together they rose above the challenges of the Comstock to stake a bold claim on the future.
Author : Grant Horace Smith
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1888035048
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,William Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
ISBN : UOM:39015064562948
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Mineral industries
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU05611628
Author : Wells Drury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
ISBN : UCR:31210004390256