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Title: The history of the Comstock Lode
Author: Grant H. Smith, with new material by Joseph V. Tingley
Year: 1998
Series: Special Publication 24
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Format: 328 pages
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The first edition of this book, published in 1943, provided mining investors, engineers, and western historians with the first comprehensive chronological history of mining operations on the Comstock. This new second edition, published in association with the University of Nevada Press, brings the history of mining operations on the Comstock to the present.
No aspect of Nevada's history has captured so much attention as the heady boomtown days of the Comstock Lode strike in the mid-nineteenth century. 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.
Grant H. Smith labored on this project for more than a decade to produce a volume that has become a classic in its field and a mainstay in all mining history collections. 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 end of the twentieth century, The History of the Comstock Lode will once again be enjoyed by scholars and students of mining history as well as western history buffs.
Copyright © 1943, 1966 by the University of Nevada, Mackay School of Mines
New material copyright © 1998 by University of Nevada Press
Original Product Code: SP24
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