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The roar and the silence : a history of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode /
The Roar and the Silence chronicles the area's history from its earliest days through the early twentieth century, when the lode finally gave out ant the Comstock sank into silent decay, and up to the present, when Virginia City and its environs found new life, first as a community of bohemians...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Reno, Nev. :
University of Nevada Press,
©1998.
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| Colección: | Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities (Unnumbered)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Glimmer of Opportunity: The Setting; 2. The First Boom: Building the Community; 3. The First Boom: Building the Mines; 4. Grief, Depression, and Disasters: Successes in the Midst of Failures; 5. A Time of Bonanza; 6. The Workers: Labor in an Industrialized Community; 7. The International Community: Ethnicity Celebrated; 8. The Moral Options: Sinners; 9. The Moral Options: Saints; 10. Princes and Paupers: Contrasts in Class; 11. Over Time: Bonanza and Borrasca (1877-1942).
- 12. The Sequel to the Big Bonanza: Tourism and TelevisionAfterword; Notes; Bibliography and Bibliographical Essay; Index.