Washoe County Library System

A look at Tonopah Mining Park and adjacent historic metal foundry, through the eyes of longtime geologist and prospector John Livermore and foundry owner John Campbell, whose grandfather established the foundry.

Discusses the history of the mining days at Comstock.

The story of four spirited Irishmen - two San Francisco bartenders and two Comstock miners - who became owners of the California and Consolidated Virginia mines, amassing a fortune and an empire which endured for 40 years

"This may be the best discovery to come out of Nevada mining since the Big Bonanza vein itself. Dan De Quille was the outstanding reporter of the Comstock Lode, and almost anything he would have to say about it would be worth reading."--Michael Green.

Obsessed with revenging his parents' murder by outlaws, Val Trevallion travels to Virginia City where the world's largest silver strike is likely to attract the killers he is searching for. It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures -- they were lured by the glittering promise of instant...

Of the many easterners who went west at the close of the nineteenth century, Tasker L. Oddie was one of the most purposeful. The twenty-seven-year-old attorney and business executive from East Orange, New Jersey, moved to Austin, Nevada, in 1898 as secretary of the Nevada Company, which had mining interests in central Nevada. There he uncovered for his employers, the Stokes family, a fraud committed by the firm's general manager. In the aftermath...