Author: Squire Pierce Dewey
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Category : Bonanza Mines (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Squire Pierce Dewey
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Category : Bonanza Mines (Nev.).
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Ferol Egan
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874178495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Much of the wealth from the great mining bonanzas of the nineteenth century American West flowed into San Francisco and made possible the growth of the city and some fabulous personal fortunes. Among the wealthiest and most powerful of the Bonanza Kings were William Bowers Bourn I and his son and successor, William Bowers Bourn II. Their wealth came from rich mines in Nevada’s Comstock Lode and Treasure Hill and California’s Sierra foothills, as well as astute business ventures in the booming port city of San Francisco. Last Bonanza Kings tells their story with all the colorful detail and sweeping sense of epic drama that the characters and their times demand, setting them into the turbulent context of an age of rampant financial and civic growth, major technological advances in mining, lavish philanthropy, and opulent personal lifestyles.

Author: Gregory Crouch
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1501108204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control of Nevada’s Comstock Lode. Born in 1831, John W. Mackay was a penniless Irish immigrant who came of age in New York City, went to California during the Gold Rush, and mined without much luck for eight years. When he heard of riches found on the other side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1859, Mackay abandoned his claim and walked a hundred miles to the Comstock Lode in Nevada. Over the course of the next dozen years, Mackay worked his way up from nothing, thwarting the pernicious “Bank Ring” monopoly to seize control of the most concentrated cache of precious metals ever found on earth, the legendary “Big Bonanza,” a stupendously rich body of gold and silver ore discovered 1,500 feet beneath the streets of Virginia City, the ultimate Old West boomtown. But for the ore to be worth anything it had to be found, claimed, and successfully extracted, each step requiring enormous risk and the creation of an entirely new industry. Now Gregory Crouch tells Mackay’s amazing story—how he extracted the ore from deep underground and used his vast mining fortune to crush the transatlantic telegraph monopoly of the notorious Jay Gould. “No one does a better job than Crouch when he explores the subject of mining, and no one does a better job than he when he describes the hardscrabble lives of miners” (San Francisco Chronicle). Featuring great period photographs and maps, The Bonanza King is a dazzling tour de force, a riveting history of Virginia City, Nevada, the Comstock Lode, and America itself.

Author: Dan De Quille
Publisher:
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Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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The classic book of the discovery and mining of silver and gold on the Comstock Lode by the editor of the Territorial Enterprise.

Author: Richard H. Peterson
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Category : Mining industry and finance
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Richard H. Peterson
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ISBN: 9780806123899
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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Author: Richard H. Peterson
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: William Wright
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Category : Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Author: Bonanza Gold Mine Company
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Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 11

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