The Saga of the Comstock Lode
Subtitle: Boom Days in Virginia City
By: George D. Lyman.
Edition: Comstock ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Comstock Lode (Nev.); Virginia City (Nev.)
Description: The wild adventure of thousands of reckless Californians who rushed to Sun Mountain, Nevada, to stake their claims in the richest vein of silver in the West.
Table of contents: pagenum: ix
title: Introduction; title: Book 1: "Blue-Stuff"; pagenum: 3
title: At Devil's Gate
label: I.; pagenum: 11
title: "Blue-Stuff" in Gold Cañon
label: II.; pagenum: 17
title: The Secret of the Grosches
label: III.; pagenum: 25
title: The Clew Lost
label: IV.; pagenum: 31
title: Fools of Fortune
label: V.; pagenum: 39
title: The Christening
label: VI.; pagenum: 43
title: Call of Washoe
label: VII.; pagenum: 50
title: Bill Stewart
label: VIII.; pagenum: 56
title: The Boys
label: IX.; pagenum: 63
title: Rush to Washoe
label: X.; title: Book II: Bonanza; pagenum: 77
title: Arrival
label: XI.; pagenum: 80
title: The Image
label: XII.; pagenum: 90
title: Virginia
label: XIII.; pagenum: 99
title: Malevolent Forces
label: XIV.; pagenum: 104
title: The Phantom of the Desert
label: XV.; pagenum: 108
title: "Benecia Boy" or Sayers?
label: XVI.; pagenum: 112
title: Piute War
label: XVII.; pagenum: 124
title: "Buck Fanshaw"
label: XVIII.; pagenum: 130
title: "Lincoln's Elected"
label: XIX.; pagenum: 133
title: Territorial Enterprise
label: XX.; pagenum: 137
title: Ophir
label: XXI.; pagenum: 143
title: Mills
label: XXII.; pagenum: 149
title: Ships of the Desert
label: XXIII.; pagenum: 152
title: The Squaw and the Chief
label: XXIV.; pagenum: 158
title: Secession
label: XXV.; pagenum: 164
title: "Fighting Sam Brown"
label: XXVI.; pagenum: 169
title: Langford Peel
label: XXVII.; pagenum: 172
title: Struggle for Control
label: XXVIII.; pagenum: 178
title: Rebels Capture Sun Mountain
label: XXIX.; pagenum: 182
title: Bull Run
label: XXX.; pagenum: 186
title: The Governor
label: XXXI.; pagenum: 192
title: Law
label: XXXII.; pagenum: 195
title: The New Chief
label: XXXIII.; pagenum: 201
title: The Hidden City
label: XXXIV.; pagenum: 205
title: Amusements
label: XXXV.; pagenum: 212
title: Professor Personal Pronoun
label: XXXVI.; pagenum: 214
title: Evolution of a Humorist
label: XXXVII.; pagenum: 223
title: Mark Twain
label: XXXVIII.; pagenum: 226
title: Flush Times
label: XXXIX.; pagenum: 239
title: The Rowdy Fund
label: XL.; pagenum: 241
title: St. Mary's Silver Bell
label: XLI.; pagenum: 244
title: Reverend Grosch Sues
label: XLII.; pagenum: 248
title: Virginia Organizes
label: XLIII.; pagenum: 250
title: Bullets and Poetry
label: XLIV.; pagenum: 254
title: The Flag in the Sky
label: XLV.; pagenum: 257
title: Satire in Washoe
label: XLVI.; pagenum: 262
title: Kings of Bonanza
label: XLVII.; pagenum: 268
title: Babes in the Wood
label: XLVIII.; pagenum: 276
title: The Honest Miner
label: XLVIX.; pagenum: 280
title: Governor of the Third House
label: L.; pagenum: 284
title: Mazeppa
label: LI.; pagenum: 292
title: Adah Isaacs Menken
label: LII.; pagenum: 298
title: Army of the Lord
label: LIII.; pagenum: 307
title: Mark Twain's Last Hoax
label: LIV.; pagenum: 317
title: The Duel
label: LV.; title: Book III: Borrasca; pagenum: 323
title: Borrasca
label: LVI.; pagenum: 329
title: The Thirteenth Amendment
label: LVII.; pagenum: 332
title: The Thirty-Sixth Star
label: LVIII.; pagenum: 337
title: Washoe's Godfather
label: LIX.; pagenum: 340
title: The Door
label: LX.; pagenum: 343
title: Lee's Surrender
label: LXI.; pagenum: 346
title: "Not Enough Forever"
label: LXII.; pagenum: 350
title: President Lincoln's Last Message to the Boys
label: LXIII.; pagenum: 355
title: Amends
label: LXIV.; pagenum: 356
title: Ironical Washoe
label: LXV.; pagenum: 365
title: Quest of El Dorado
label: LXVI.; pagenum: 369
title: Acknowledgements