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Author:
Wheeler, Richard S.
Title:
Sun Mountain : a Comstock memoir / Richard S. Wheeler.
Edition:
1st mass market ed.
Publisher:
Forge,
Copyright Date:
2002
Description:
378 p. ; 18 cm.
Subject:
Mineral industries--Virginia City--Virginia City--History--Fiction.
Journalists--Virginia City--Virginia City--Fiction.
Virginia City (Nev.)--History.--Fiction.
Comstock Lode (Nev.)--History.--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Western stories.
Notes:
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Summary:
An adventurer's memoir of his time in a gold-mining town in 1861 Nevada. The hero is Henry Stoddard, an educated man who begins as a miner and ends up as a reporter. He describes the mechanics of mining, disasters, financial speculation and new inventions, among them dynamite.
ISBN:
9780812580112 (pbk.) :
0812580117 (pbk.) :
OCLC:
(OCoLC)50287571
Locations:
CHPB482 -- North English Public Library (North English)

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