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Sun Mountain : A Comstock Novel (Comstock Novels)
Sun Mountain A Comstock Novel - Comstock Novels Author:Richard S. Wheeler "There had never been a place like the Comstock or a city like Virginia or a gathering of brilliant men such as those who assembled there." So writes Henry Stoddard in Richard Wheeler's unforgettable novel-as-memoir of Virginia City, the most spectacular boomtown ever seen in the West. — Drawn to fabled Virginia City and its Comstock Lode in the ... more »early 1860s, journalist Henry Stoddard brushed shoulders with mining titans, speculators, and bankers -the people who built fortunes from the amazing mines--as well as the men who went down into the bowels of the earth to wrest the riches from it, working in the hellish heat for $4 a week
Also among Stoddard's acquaintances was a young Missourian named Sam Clemens, who prospered in Virginia City as a reporter for the Enterprise and would later transform himself into Mark Twain
Henry Stoddard is fictional; the story, however, is true, perhaps the most astonishing true story of the American West.« less