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Mile-High Fever: Silver Mines, Boom Towns, and High Living on the Comstock Lode
MileHigh Fever Silver Mines Boom Towns and High Living on the Comstock Lode
Author: Dennis Drabelle
In the rip-roaring, true saga of the Comstock Lode, Dennis Drabelle skillfully brings to life silver-mining in the late-nineteenth-century American West. The immense wealth extracted from the Lode spurred the growth of San Francisco, and Virginia City, the hell-raising town that sprang up above the mines, was the inspiration for the TV series ?B...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312379476
ISBN-10: 0312379471
Publication Date: 7/7/2009
Pages: 304
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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