Map of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe mining claims in Storey & Lyon counties, Nevada

America Transformed: In 1859, major deposits of silver known as the Comstock Lode were discovered on the Nevada side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mining spurred the rapid growth of Virginia City, which reached a population of 15,000 by 1863, prompting Nevada's statehood in...

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1875
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English
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06_01_016080
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Boston Public Library
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S[an] F[rancisco]
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G.T. Brown Co. Lith.
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United States
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Nevada
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Storey
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