Abandon, Advantage, Affect, Alcoholism, Altitude, American West, Amounts, Anticipation, Anxiety, Area, Assay, Assist, Attempt
Bankruptcy, Beckon, Belief, Bimetallism, Blaze, Bonanza, Boom, Boom town, Boundary, Broke, Burden, Buried, Bust, Bustle
Cabins, California, Camp, Capital, Challenges, Claim, Climb, Coinage, Cold, Collecting, Commodity, Commotion, Competition, Complications, Comstock Lode, Conceal, Conditions, Copper, Cover, Covert, Cradle, Creek, Currency, Cutthroat
Death, Debris, Delivery, Demand, Deny, Deposit, Descent, Despair, Detect, Detection, Determination, Develop, Difficult, Dirt, Disadvantage, Discovery, Dishonest, Dispute, Ditch, Document, Doubt, Dream, Dreary
Effect, Embedded, Engineering, Epic, Equipment, Eventful, Evidence, Excavate, Excitement, Exhaustion, Exploit, Explore, Exposure
Fever, Flock, Foil, Formation, Fortune, Fortune hunter, Freewheeling, Frontier
Gambling, George Hearst, Grosh (Ethan and Hosea)
Hardship, Hardworking, Heat, Henry Comstock, Heritage, Hidden, Historical, Honest, Hope, Horseback, Horses, Hunger
Illness, Impact, Information, Interaction, Interest, Investment, Issues
James C. Flood, Jinx, Journey, Joy
Key
Labor, Laborer, Lacking, Law, Lawless, Lead, Legal, Load, Lode, Lodging, Losses, Luck, Lure
Mania, Map, Measure, Memorabilia, Mercantile, Metal, Metallic Ore, Millionaires, Mills, Miner, Minerals, Mining, Mining, Miserable, Monetary, Money, Monitor, Mountains, Movement
Nasty, Neglect, Nevada, Nugget, Numbers
Obsession, Obstacle, Official, Opportunist, Opportunity, Ore, Overland, Ownership
Pack animals, Panning, Passion, Path, Persuade, Pick ax, Piles, Pioneers, Pipeline, Play out, Preserve, Prices, Primitive, Produce, Profit, Prospect, Prospector, Purpose
Quality, Quantity, Quartz, Quest
Recovery, Region, Rental, Reveal, Risk, Rock, Rough, Route, Rugged, Rush, Rustic
Sacrifices, Scale, Scarcity, Seek, Serious, Settle, Settlement, Shack, Sierra Mountains, Sift, Sky-high, Slogan, Smelt, Soldiers, Spur, Stage coach, Stake, Standard, Stealing, Strike, Struggle, Supplies, Supply, Sway
Thousands, Toil, Toll, Tools, Town, Trail, Transportation, Treasure, Trial, Trouble, Tunneling
Undergo, Unfortunate, Unique, Unscrupulous, Unusual
Value, Vein, Verify, Vicinity, Virginia City
Wagering, Wagons, Water, Wealth, Weary, Weather, Weigh, West, Western, Westward, Wilderness, William Jennings Bryan, Witness, Work, Worthless
Yield
Zeal, Zealous, Zinc
Did you know?
Samuel Clemens lived in Virginia City as a newspaperman. During his stay there, in his younger days, he began using the name Mark Twain. He even worked in the Comstock Mills! He published “Roughing It” in 1872 and included a passage that read: ” There is nothing so aggravating as silver mining.”
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