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Item Information       Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content     More by this author     Crouch, Gregory, 1966-     Subjects     Mackay, John William, 1831-1902.     Capitalists and financiers -- Nevada -- Biography.     Silver mines and mining -- Nevada -- History.     Gold mines and mining -- Nevada -- History.     Comstock Lode (Nev.) -- History -- 19th century.     Virginia City (Nev.) -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Crouch, Gregory, 1966-       by title:      The bonanza king : J...       by call number:      979.302092 C952b     Search the Web     Crouch, Gregory, 1966-     Mackay, John William, 1831-1902.     Capitalists and financiers -- Nevada -- Biography.     Silver mines and mining -- Nevada -- History.     Gold mines and mining -- Nevada -- History.     Comstock Lode (Nev.) -- History -- 19th century.     Virginia City (Nev.) -- History -- 19th century.       MARC Display

The bonanza king : John Mackay and the battle over the greatest riches in the American West / Gregory Crouch. by Crouch, Gregory, 1966- Scribner, 2018. Call #: 979.302092 C952b Subjects Mackay, John William, 1831-1902.   Capitalists and financiers -- Nevada -- Biography.   Silver mines and mining -- Nevada -- History.   Gold mines and mining -- Nevada -- History.   Comstock Lode (Nev.) -- History -- 19th century.   Virginia City (Nev.) -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9781501108198 (hc.) Edition:  1st Scribner hardcover ed. Description:  ix, 466 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Notes:  Includes index. Contents:  A rough Irish lad -- Gilded dreams-and the hard fist of California reality -- The lure of the Washoe diggings -- The rush to Washoe-and an Indian war -- Surrounded by riches-and unable to get them out -- Revving up the boom -- The first boom, frenzied and exuberant -- A tiny sliver of a mine -- The rise of the Bank Ring -- The Irish coup -- The Lode's worst day -- Jones's sick child -- The consolidated Virginia mine -- The strike -- The big bonanza -- The bonanza king -- The cable war -- Twilight. Summary:  Traces the rags-to-riches frontier story of Irish immigrant John Mackay, describing how in mid-nineteenth-century Nevada he outmaneuvered the pernicious "Bank Ring" monopoly and thousands of rivals to take control of the history-making Comstock Lode. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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