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Virginia City,NV - Storey County - 1929-1989 - Comstock Publications :

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Virginia City,NV - Storey County - 1929-1989 - Comstock Publications :
Lot of 9 includes: 1) Mines and Mills of the Comstock Region: Western Nevada by Ansari, Mary B. Soft cover, indexed, 101 pages including illustrations. Published by Camp Nevada, 1989. Covers names, locations, and production of many Comstock-related mines and mills (Paher # 104). 2) Comstock Commotion by Beebe, Lucius. Soft cover, 129 pages including illustrations and photographs. An advance review copy, Stanford University Press, 1954. 3) Guide to Virginia City, NV & the Comstock Lode Area, compiled by the staff of Pages of History. Soft cover, 55 pages including many illustrations, map and 2 postcards. Copyright 1959 by Pages of History, Sausalito, CA. Includes "book and map which locate and describe points of interest in the history of mining the lode." 4) Virginia & Truckee by Beebe, Lucius and Clegg, Charles. Soft cover, 68 pages including many maps, photographs, and illustrations. Published by Howell-North, fifth edition, 1963. The Virginia & Truckee, "golden railroad to yesterday, the railroad which made possible the Big Bonanza.…" 5) Forged in Silver by Young, Bob and Jan. Hardcover, indexed, 190 pages (Paher #2229). Julian Messner, New York, 1968. Covers the quarter century of the Comstock lode. 6) Eilley Orrum, Queen of the Comstock by Paine, Swift. Hardcover, 309 pages (Paher # 1521). Pacific Books, Palo Alto, CA, 1929. Story of "one of the most colorful people in a land of color was Eilley Orrum, Queen of the Comstock." 7) The Big Bonanza by Glasscock, C.B. Hardcover, indexed, 368 pages. A.L. Burt Company, N.Y. & Chicago, 1931. Several areas of paper cover torn. The dramatic and exciting story of the Comstock Lode. 8) Who Shot Maggie in the Freckle? By The Comstocker. Soft cover, 16 pages including illustrations. First edition, copyright 1940 by Duncan Emrich. 9) Meet Virginia City's Ghosts by O'Brien, Dolores K. Copyright 1969. Book is written as a "fascinating fun-tour of places in Virginia City where ghosts have recently revealed themselves."