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The Comstock Lode and Virginia City Awakening
A historical overview recalls the Comstock Lode discovery in Storey County Nevada. Henry Comstock and Irish partners along with Judge Walsh and Sam Clemens shaped Virginia City’s rise, the Big Bonanza, and subsequent boom busts amid silver ore finds and mining fortunes.
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Elmo Scott
Watson
West
Roosevelt
California
Montana
Colorado
South Dakota
Nevada
Virginia City
Nev
Comstock Lode
C. B. Glasscock
Lucky Baldwin
Bobbs-Merrll Company
Storey County
Itono
Gold Canyon
Henry Thomas Paige Comstock
James Finney
Fennimore
Virginia
Peter O'Riley
Patrick McLaughlin
Manny Penrod
Jack Bishop
Joe Winters
Johntown
Walker River
O'Riley
McLaughlin
Comstock
Glasscock
O’riley
Gold Hill
Washoe
Duarlus Ogden Mills
James R. Keene
James GC. Plead
John T. Bradley
Mwooster
Tauchy” Baldwin
Ophir
Crown Point
Belcher
Yellow Jacket
Imperial
Kentucky
Empire
Gould and
Curry
Modjeska
Booth
Barrett
McCullough
Consolidated” Virginia
San Francisco
Bobbs-Morrill Company