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Crouch, Gregory, 1966-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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