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Re: Gold Hill, NV - Depot and Live Steam Saturday, May 26
Author: Graham Buxton
Date: 05-13-2012 - 17:49

74GNW Wrote:
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> Why would you refer to the V&T as "infamous" ?

Perhaps because of this ...

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description of book titled "The Infamous King of the Comstock"
William Sharon and the Gilded Age in the West
By Michael J. Makley

William Sharon was one of the most colorful scoundrels in the nineteenth-century mining West. He epitomized the robber barons of the nation’s Gilded Age and the political corruption and moral decay for which that period remains notorious; yet he was also a visionary capitalist who controlled more than a dozen of the greatest mines on Nevada’s mighty Comstock Lode, built the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, manipulated speculation and prices on the San Francisco Stock Exchange, and revived the collapsed Bank of California.

[www.nvbooks.nevada.edu]


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  Gold Hill, NV - Depot and Live Steam Saturday, May 26 Steve Tucker 05-13-2012 - 11:01
  Re: Gold Hill, NV - Depot and Live Steam Saturday, May 26 Rich Hunn 05-13-2012 - 16:37
  Very dedicated long term volunteers Steve Tucker 05-13-2012 - 22:47
  Re: Gold Hill, NV - Depot and Live Steam Saturday, May 26 74GNW 05-13-2012 - 17:12
  Re: Gold Hill, NV - Depot and Live Steam Saturday, May 26 Graham Buxton 05-13-2012 - 17:49
  Correction: World-Renowned Steve Tucker 05-13-2012 - 22:29


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