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The richest place on earth : the story of Virginia City, and the heyday of the Comstock Lode / Warren Hinckle & Fredric Hobbs; with drawings by Fredric Hobbs.
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- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1978.
- 1978
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IXF (Virginia City) 78-1778 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Gold diggers & silver miners : prostitution and social life on the Comstock Lode / Marion S. Goldman.
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- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1981.
- 1981
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLE 81-2404 Offsite Red shirts and leather helmets : volunteer fire fighting on the Comstock Lode / Steven R. Frady.
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- Reno : University of Nevada Press, 1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSE 85-867 Offsite Paiute : [novel] / Sessions S. Wheeler ; new foreword by Robert E. Blesse.
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- Reno : University of Nevada Press, 1986.
- 1986-1965
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 87-5054 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A peep at Washoe : or, Sketch of adventure in Virginia City : being a new printing, conscientiously prepared, of the New York edition by Harper & Brothers, 1875 / J. Ross Browne ; an introduction by Oscar Lewis.
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- Palo Alto, Calif. : Lewis Osborne, 1968.
- 1968
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IXF (Virginia City) 87-2361 Offsite Eilley Orrum, queen of the Comstock, by Swift Paine.
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- Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company [c1929]
- 1929
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text AN (Bowers) (Paine, S. Eilley Orrum, queen of the Comstock) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The big bonanza; an authentic account of the discovery, history, and working of the world-renowned Comstock lode of Nevada, including the present condition of the various mines situated thereon, sketches of the most prominent men interested in them, incidents and adventures connected with mining, the Indians, and the country; amusing stories, experiences, anecdotes, etc., etc., and a full exposition of the production of pure silver, by Dan De Quille (William Wright) Introduction by Oscar Lewis.
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- New York, A. A. Knopf, 1947.
- 1947-1876
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IXE (Wright, W. Big bonanza) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
From under Sun Mountain; tales and poems of a miner.
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- New York, Vantage Press [1961]
- 1961
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IXF (Comstock Lode) (Carroll, W. L. From under Sun Mountain) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Legends of the Comstock Lode, by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg. Decorations by E. S. Hammack.
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- 0akland, Calif., G. H. Hardy, 1950.
- 1950
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IXF (Virginia City) (Beebe, L. M. Legends of the Comstock lode) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A peep at Washoe, and Washoe revisited; written and illustrated by J. Ross Browne.
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- Balboa Island, Calif., Paisano Press [1959]
- 1959-1863
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IXF (Virginia City) (Browne, J. R. Peep at Washoe) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
My memories of the Comstock, by Harry M.Gorham; illustrated by John & Marie Gorham.
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- Los Angeles, Suttonhouse Publishers [c1939]
- 1939
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IXF (Virginia City) (Gorham, H. M. My memories of the Comstock) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The drama of Virginia City.
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- [S.l.] : Nevada Branch of the American Association of Univer-sity Women, c1925.
- 1925
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IXF (Virginia City) (Lord, E. Drama of Virginia City) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The saga of the Comstock lode; boom days in Virginia City, by George D. Lyman ...
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- New York, London, C. Scribner's Sons, 1934.
- 1934
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IXF (Virginia City) (Lyman, G. D. Saga of the Comstock lode) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The wonderlode of silver and gold, by Miriam Michelson.
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- Boston, Mass., The Stratford company [c1934]
- 1934
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IXF (Virginia City) (Michelson, M. Wonderlode of silver and gold) Offsite Gold strikes and ghost towns.
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- Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday 1961.
- 1961
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IW (Webb, T. Gold strikes and ghost towns) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
An editor on the Comstock Lode / by Wells Drury ; foreward by Ella Bishop Drury.
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- New York ; Toronto : Farrar & Rinehart, c1936.
- 1936
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NARF (Drury, W. Editor on the Comstock lode) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
History of the big bonanza: an authentic account of the discovery, history, and working of the world renowned Comstock silver lode of Nevada: including the present condition of the various mines situated thereon; sketches of the most prominent men interested in them ... By Dan De Quille (William Wright)
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- Hartford, Conn., American Publishing C
- 1876
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IXE (Wright, W. History of the Big Bonanza) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
City of illusion / by Vardis Fisher.
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- Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers ; New York : Harper, 1941.
- 1941
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NBO (Fisher, V. City of illusion) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NBO (Fisher, V. City of illusion) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NBO (Fisher, V. City of illusion) Offsite Comstock women : the making of a mining community / edited by Ronald M. James & C. Elizabeth Raymond.
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- Reno : University of Nevada Press, c1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 98-696 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Report of the commissioners and evidence taken by the Committee on Mines and Mining of the House of Representatives ... in regard to the Sutro tunnel : together with the arguments and report of the Committee, recommending a loan by the government in aid of the construction of said work.
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- Washington, D.C. : [U.S. Senate], 1872
- 1872
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 3-VDF (United States. Sutro Tunnel Commission. Report) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VHR (United States. Sutro-Tunnel Commission. Report) Offsite The story of the mine, as illustrated by the great Comstock lode of Nevada; by Charles Howard Shinn.
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- New York, D. Appleton and company, 1903 [c1896]
- 1903-1896
- 2 Items
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433090915301Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 3-VHB (Shinn, C. H. Story of the mine) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 3-VHB (Shinn, C. H. Story of the mine) Index Offsite The story of the mine, as illustrated by the great Comstock lode of Nevada; by Charles Howard Shinn.
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- New York, D. Appleton and company, 1906 [c1896]
- 1906-1896
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VHB (Shinn, C. H. Story of the mine) Offsite The Comstock lode, its formation and history, by John A. Church ...
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- New York, J. Wiley & sons, c1879.
- 1879
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VHR+ (Church, J. A. Comstock lode) Offsite The Bonanza mines and the Bonanza kings of California. Their 5 years reign: 1875-1879 ...
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- [San Francisco? 1879?]
- 1879
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 3-VHR (Dewey, S. P. Bonanza mines and the Bonanza kings of California) Offsite The big bonanza; the story of the Comstock lode, by C.B. Glasscock ...
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- Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company [c1931]
- 1931
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VHR (Glasscock, C. B. Big bonanza) Offsite Comstock mining and miners. A reprint of the 1883 edition. Appropriate illus. have been added to augment the text. With introd. by David F. Myrick.
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- Berkeley, Calif., Howell-North, 1959.
- 1959-1883
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VHR (Lord, E. Comstock mining and miners) Offsite Souvenir of the Comstock. Embracing the principal views of Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City and Sutro. Photographed and copyrighted ... by Jas. H. Crockwell, Photographer, Virginia City, Nevada.
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- New York, The Albertype Co., 1890.
- 1890
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VHCC (Crockwell, J. H. Souvenir of the Comstock) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Ralston's ring; California plunders the Comstock lode, by George D. Lyman.
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- New York, C. Scribner's Sons; London, C. Scibner's Sons, ltd., 1937.
- 1937
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VHCC (Lyman, G. D. Ralston's ring) Offsite The mineral resources of the United States, and the importance and necessity of inaugurating a rational system of mining, with special reference to the Comstock lode and the Sutro tunnel, in Nevada. By Adolph Sutro.
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- Baltimore, J. Murphy & co., 1868.
- 1868
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 3-VHR+ (Sutro, A. H. J. Mineral resources of the United States) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VHR+ (Sutro, A. H. J. Mineral resources of the United States) Offsite The roar and the silence : a history of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode / Ronald M. James.
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- Reno : University of Nevada Press, c1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IXF (Virginia City) 98-8945 Offsite The Comstock lode: its character, and the probable mode of its continuance in depth. By Ferdinand baron Richthofen ...
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- San Francisco, Sutro Tunnel Company, 1866.
- 1866
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OAI p.v. 94 no. 1-7 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Report of the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel, made by order of the Secretary of War, according to Acts of Congress of March 2, 1867, and March 3, 1869, under the direction of Brig. and Bvt. Major General A.A. Humphreys / by Clarence King.
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- [Washington : G.P.O., 1870-]
- 1870-present
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PTB (U.S. Geological Exploration of the fortieth parallel. Report. 1876-1878) v. 4, pt. 2-3 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VWI (United States. Engineer Bureau. Professional papers, no. 18) v. 4 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PTB (U.S. Geological Exploration of the fortieth parallel. Report. 1876-1878) v. 6 Offsite Sun Mountain : a Comstock memoir / Richard S. Wheeler.
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- New York : Forge, 1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 00-6319 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A history of the Comstock silver lode & mines, Nevada and the great basin region; Lake Tahoe and the high Sierras ... The mineral and agricultural resources of "Silverland" ... By Dan De Quille [pseud.]
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- Virginia, Nev., F. Boegle [c1889]
- 1889
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VHBD p.v. 63 no. 1-6 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Gleanings from the inside history of the Bonanzas. S.P. Dewey wants his losses divided - why the suit for tailings was brought - playing a deep game for heavy stakes - the friend of the public in a new role.
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- [San Francisco, 1878?]
- 1878
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VHR p.v. 6 no. 2-14 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Report of the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel [microform] / made by order of the secretary of war according to the acts of congress of March 2, 1867, and March 3, 1869, under the direction of ...A.A.Humphreys, chief of engineers, by Clarence King, U.S.geologist..
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- Washington : U.S.G.P.O., 1870-1876.
- 1870-1876
Report of the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel [microform] / made by order of the secretary of war according to the acts of congress of March 2, 1867, and March 3, 1869, under the direction of ...A.A.Humphreys, chief of engineers, by Clarence King, U.S.geologist..
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- Washington : U.S.G.P.O., 1870-1876.
- 1870-1876
The infamous king of the Comstock : William Sharon and the Gilded Age in the West / Michael J. Makley.
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- Reno : University of Nevada Press, c2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
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Insider stories of the Comstock Lode and Nevada's mining frontier, 1859-1909 : primary sources in American social history / collected and edited by Lawrence I. Berkove.
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- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2007.
- 2007
- 2 Items
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History of the big bonanza [microform] : an authentic account of the discovery, history, and working of the world renowned Comstock silver lode of Nevada ; including the present condition of the various mines situated thereon ; sketches of the most prominent men interested in them / by Dan De Quille (William Wright).
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- Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing, 1876.
- 1970-1876
Geology of the Comstock lode and the Washoe district, with atlas [microform].
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- Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1882.
- 1970-1882
The story of the mine [microform] : as illustrated by the great Comstock lode of Nevada.
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- New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1896.
- 1970-1896
The history of the Comstock Lode : 1850-1920.
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- Reno, Nev. : Nevada State Bureau of Mines and Mackay School of Mines, c1943.
- 1943
- 1 Item
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433067686604Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSE 10-624 Offsite The Gold Rush Letters OF E. ALLEN GROSH AND HOSEA B. GROSH / EDITED BY Ronald M. James and Robert E. Stewart.
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- RENO : UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS, [2012]
- 2012
- 1 Item
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The Comstock lode [electronic resource] : its character, and the probable mode of its continuance in depth / by Ferdinand Baron Richthofen.
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- San Francisco : Sutro Tunnel Co., 1866.
- 1866
- 1 Resource
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY102460140&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplMining industry [electronic resource] / by James D[uncan] Hague ; with geological contributions, by Clarence King.
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- Washington : G.P.O., 1870.
- 1870
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- [Washington : s.n., 18--]
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- Washington : G.P.O., 1870.
- 1870
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http://ncco.galegroup.com/gdc/ncco/MonographsDetailsPage/MonographsDetailsWindow?disableHighlighting=false&prodId=NCCO&action=1&activityType=BasicSearch&javax.portlet.action=viewPortletAction&documentId=GALE%7CBAWIQQ424680922&dviSelectedPage=1&userGroupName=nyplReport of the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel [electronic resource] : made by order of the Secretary of War according to the Acts of Congress of March 2, 1867, and March 3, 1869, under the direction of Brig. and Bvt. Major General A.A. Humphreys, chief of engineers / by Clarence King.
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- [Washington, D.C. : G.P.O., 1870-1880]
- 1870-1880
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- Washington : G.P.O., 1882.
- 1882
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