Title: Sun Mountain
Subtitle: a Comstock novel
First published: 1999
Description: Sitting down to write his recollections of the silver-mining boomtown of Virginia City, Nevada, on "the virgin day of a virgin century" January 1, 1900 the narrator, Henry Stoddard, muses about the wealth of the Comstock Lode, whose gold and silver drew him from his schoolbooks to the Great West in 1861.
Subjects: Mineral industries, History, Journalists, Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Nevada, fiction, Journalists, fiction
Places: Comstock Lode (Nev.), Virginia City (Nev.), Virginia City Region (Nev.)
Time periods: 1900