In 1859 this "lode" of silver made Nevada's Virginia City one of the most famous Western mining towns
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Virginia City, Nevada and the Comstock Lode - Legends of America  A once bustling mining town in the late 1800s, Virginia City Nevada was heralded as ... McLaughlin and Peter O'Reilly discovered gold at the head of Six-Mile Canyon in 1859. ... When a miner named James Finney, who was more often called "Old ... Engineers made amazing breakthroughs to facilitate the silver removal.
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Virginia City, Nevada - DesertUSA  Virginia City, the legendary Nevada mining town at the heart of the Comstock Lode, ... Virginia City lies in extreme western Nevada nestled on the eastern slopes of the ... Mark Twain is arguably Virginia City's most famous early resident. ... Virginia City sprang up after the discovery of the Comstock Lode of silver ore in 1859.
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Virginia City and Early Nevada Mining | ONE  Virginia City and the Comstock Lode played a crucial role in the ... The 1859 discovery of the Comstock Lode and the subsequent rush justified splitting Utah in half. ... Comstock gold and silver attracted a global spectrum of fortune seekers, giving ... and made Virginia City one of the most cosmopolitan places in the world.
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Virginia City, Nevada - Wikipedia  Below the town were dug intricate tunnels and shafts for silver mining. The Comstock Lode discovery and subsequent growth of Virginia City was unequaled by...
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Virginia City Essay--Three Historic Nevada Cities: Carson City, Reno  [graphic] Three Historic Nevada Cities Carson City, Reno, Virginia City A National ... In 1859, placer miners and prospectors in the western Great Basin made two ... The Comstock Lode, as people soon called the ore body, was distinct in the ... the mines in and around Virginia City produced one-half of the nation's silver up...
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Butch & Sundanceand Rolla - True West Magazine  Nov 8, 2011 ... History does, all too often. ... He worked for the railroads before gold fever struck him after the 1896 discovery in Alaska. Rolla eventually headed to Bolivia to supervise the Concordia mine for the Andes ... Butch accounted for all the money. ... (Wild Bunch expert Dan Buck suspects an engineer saw wanted...
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Mining Archaeology in the American West - DigitalCommons ...  Apr 1, 2010 ... ... in the American West : a view from the Silver State / Donald L. Hardesty. ... Mining landscape, Bodie, California . ... Bullwheel at Bulwer Mill site, Bodie, California . ... Virginia City, Nevada, from Cedar Hill, 1870s or 1880s . . . . . . . . ...... example, noted that the Garrison Mine in the Cortez Mining District pro-.
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All About Nevada - Sheppard Software  Nevada gets its name from the Sierra Nevada mountain range, which it ... Because of the state's abundant growth of wild sage, the state is known as ... comparatively low population, Nevada is one of the most sparsely populated ... In fact, so much silver has been found in the state that it's called the "Silver State. ... Nickname.
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Virginia City - National Park Service  The Virginia City Historic District, located halfway between Reno and Carson City, ... made two remarkable strikes of silver and gold ore near Virginia City, Nevada. ... During the boom years in the 1860s and 1870s, Chinese immigrants became ... Because of its proximity to the Carson River, the town of Dayton was the...
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Mark Twain - Wikipedia  Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835  April 21, 1910), better known by his pen ... After an apprenticeship with a printer, Twain worked as a typesetter and contributed .... Twain's journey ended in the silver-mining town of Virginia City, Nevada, where he ..... Ernest Hemingway once said of Huckleberry Finn:.
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Comstock Lode - Wikipedia  The Comstock Lode is a lode of silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Nevada (then western Utah Territory). It was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States. After the discovery was made public in 1859, it sparked a silver rush of .... After nine years, the Gold Canon placers were producing less, and many...
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Virginia City and Early Nevada Mining | ONE  When prospectors passed through the region in 1849 heading for ... The 1859 discovery of the Comstock Lode and the subsequent rush justified splitting Utah in half. ... Comstock gold and silver attracted a global spectrum of fortune seekers, giving ... Largely because of the Comstock, mining was the backbone of the state...
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The Mystique of the Carson City Silver Dollar | National Silver Dollar ...  Jul 25, 2012 ... Carson City (CC) Morgan silver dollars have been a favorite coin of collectors ... Of the two million coins (aggregate) required by law to be minted each ..... Almost 63% of the 1883-CC total mintage was found in the Treasury hoard. ... Like the 1889-CC, the 1893-CC is an excellent investment due to its rarity...
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Priscilla (ne Clark) (Pickett) (Pickett) Wilford (1826-1869 ...  Priscilla Wilford's life ended with her murder near Carson City, Nevada. ... Mills in Salt Lake City.21 Why she separated from William Armstrong Pickett, her rescuer ... Priscilla met William Wilford, who may have prospered in Australia's 1852 gold ... After he died of smallpox in January 1869, Priscilla collected the money and...
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The United States Mint  About Us  This expansion was further fueled by the discovery of gold, first in the Southeast ... In 1870, the Carson City, NV Mint opened, and in 1904 the Denver, CO Assay...
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Regional Geology - Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology  The Comstock Lode lies within the Great Basin geographical province. The Great ... The Carson River, which drains the Comstock, is located a few tens of miles to the south of the Truckee, has a similar fate, and goes no further than the Carson Sink. On the other side of the Great Basin is the Great Salt Lake. Here many...
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Virginia City, NV - Bucket of Blood Saloon - Roadside America  Virginia City, Nevada: Bucket of Blood Saloon. One of many saloons, with a ... Mine Under the Ponderosa Saloon, Virginia City, NV - < 1 mi. In the region:.
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Comstock Lode facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Comstock Lode, richest known U.S. silver deposit, W Nevada, on Mt. Davidson in the Virginia Range. It is said to have been discovered in 1857 by Ethan Allen...
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The Comstock Lode, Nevada (Part 1)*  Columbia), attracted 23,000 prospectors from the United States as well as many more from ... A placer paystreak was discovered in Gold Canyon in 1858-1859 by four prospectors ... Comstock and bought the claims from the placer miners for.
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Mining in the American West - Legends of America  The history of Mining in the Old West, with historic articles, Miners' Ten ... In the 1870's, more strikes were made in the Black Hills of South Dakota and in ... cities such as Butte, Montana; Silver City, New Mexico; El Dorado, California; and ... such as Tombstone, Arizona; South Pass City, Wyoming; and Virginia City, Nevada.
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Oct 29, 2010 Rebirth of the Comstock Lode Bob Moriarty 321gold ...s  Oct 29, 2010 ... But the Comstock has to be the most famous silver strike in history. Few of us remember the Comstock also produced 8.2 million ounces of gold. ... George Hearst, father of the famous William Randolph Hearst, made the family ... has always crippled mining in the Comstock and made a lot of lawyers rich.