THE SAGA OF THE COMSTOCK LODE

by George D. Lyman ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 2, 1934

Exciting reading -- this saga of a mining town, and a vivid episode in American history. The ""ghost city"" of Nevada, -- Virginia City -- where once some 40,000 men gathered from far and near to seize a fortune from the Comstock Lode, which was turning out from twenty to thirty millions a year, comes to being in these pages, with life lived at high pitch, with gambling dens, and painted women, and hastily thrown together shacks, and son and with the thirst for gold (or in this case silver), and bad blood, and kind-hearedness, and diplomacy at the end of a gun, and law at the end of a rope. One gets the fever of adventure, the excitement of the coming of news of the secession, when the Pony Express goes through; a hastily created additional state for the purpose of the amendment freeing the slaves, makeshift government, and crooked deals. Famous names were there -- the ground work was laid for some of our greatest fortunes. Told with vigorous and swift moving enthusiasm, which creates a vast, colorful and dramatic panorama of this phase of our western development. A book which should be a ten strike on the Coast, and west of the Rockies, and which should have more than an average sale throughout the country.

Pub Date: April 2, 1934

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Scribner

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1934

Categories: NONFICTION