This is a brief account of the Comstock Lode silver mines, and description of the geographic features of the state of Nevada including the railroads. Silver not only defined Nevada, but influenced the opening of the American West as far as San Francisco. Dan De Quille (pseudonym for William Wright) wrote extensively on the history of mining in the area of Nevada, and published the larger work “The Big Bonanza” assisted by Mark Twain, both of whom were part of the Sagebrush School of writer...

Step into the untamed heart of Nevada's silver country, where fortunes are won and lost with each swing of a pickaxe and every roll of the dice. Dan DeQuille's Washoe Rambles transports you to the explosive world of 1860s Virginia City, where desperate miners, cunning speculators, and larger-than-life characters collide in a landscape as beautiful as it is brutal. Through the keen eye of one of America's most gifted frontier journalists, witness the raw drama of a society built on equal pa...