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Virginia City Saga of Ghost Town Glory and a Civil War Gold Tale
Readable excerpts recount the boom town of Virginia City Nevada built on the Comstock Lode and its decline into a ghost town. It ties Civil War gold caravans to the Warner Bros film Virginia City starring Errol Flynn Miriam Hopkins Randolph Scott and Bogart with Death Valley Scotty as adviser.
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Duncan Emrich
Columbia University
New York City
Comstock Lode
Virginia City
Virginny
Sierras
California
San Francisco
Mississippi
Piper
Jenny Lind Sang
Edwin Booth
Virginia
Hale and Norcross
Middle Mines
Sierra Nevada
Con Cholfar
Gould and
Rule Bulette
Fire Department
West
Pete O'Riley
Pat McLaughlin
Henry Thompson Paige Comstock
McLaughlin
O'Rielly
Comstock
Montana
New Mexico
Guadaloupe Mountains
Robert Buckner
Warner Bros
Frederick Anthony Lovell
Lovell
Richmond
Los Angeles
Indio
Guadaloupe
Fort Worth
Texas
Lee
Appomattox
Errol Flynn
Kerry Bradford
Libby
Julie Haines
Miriam Hopkins
Randolph Scott
Humphrey Bogart
Alan Hale
Moroni Olson
Williams
Death Valley Scotty
Castle
Michael Curtiz
Robin Hood
Dodge City
Reno
Southern Pacific
Nevada
FE. P. Carville
National Guard