Bibliograph

The bonanza king, John Mackay and the battle over the greatest riches in the American West, Gregory Crouch

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Label

The bonanza king, John Mackay and the battle over the greatest riches in the American West, Gregory Crouch

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The bonanza king

Oclc number

1039095618

Responsibility statement

Gregory Crouch

Sub title

John Mackay and the battle over the greatest riches in the American West

Summary

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

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

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