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Comstock Grave in Bozeman Tells A Lode Founder’s Death
The grave of Henry T. P. Comstock in Sunset Hill Cemetery Bozeman bears a marble marker noting he died by his own hand on September 27 1870 at age 50 near the graves of John M. Bozeman and Montana pioneers. Archival notes recount his troubled journey from Nevada’s Comstock lode fame to penniless death.
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Henry T. P. Comstock
Comstock Lode Storey CO
Nevada
Bozeman
Comstock Lode
Virginia City
Mark Twain
Comstock
Cemetery Board
Nelson Story
Montana
Big Horn
Archie MacDonald
Charles W. Pietsch
August Gottschalck
Gottschalck
Atlantic City
Rock Creek Valley
Delight
Wyoming
Dillabaugh
Beaver Creek
Fremont Peak
Rocky Mountains
Bozeman Creek
Charles Yarnell
Schuyler Wheeler
Frank Eastman
Peter Barhite
A. D. McPherson
Judge McPherson
Bozeman Street
Judge McPherson Te Ft Comstock
W. J. Beall
Henry Comstock
Hosea and
Allen Grosh
Brown
Hosea Grosh
Sierra Mountains
California
Grosh
Grosh Brothers
Gold Hill
Old Virginia
O’riley
McLaughlin
Ophir
Carson Valley
O'Riley
Idaho
Pleasant Hill
Mount Pleasant
Virginia Town
Virginia