The bonanza king John Mackay and the battle over the greatest riches in the American West
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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scribner,
2018.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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Table of 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.
