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VIRGINIA CITY, SILVER REGION OF THE COMSTOCK LODE, by Douglas McDonald. 128 pages. 9 x 12 format, 75 illustrated, maps, index. Color cover. The discovery and development of the West’s largest silver lode is recounted in extensive text, maps, and both line drawings and photographs. There are essays on information on stock manipulations, the unions, the town’s various institutions, camels, the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, Mark Twain, law and order, the Big Four Comstock mining developers, square-set mine timbering—all are featured. $17.95.
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