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- catalog abstract "The Roar and the Silence chronicles the area's history from its earliest days through the early twentieth century, when the lode finally gave out ant the Comstock sank into silent decay, and up to the present, when Virginia City and its environs found new life, first as a community of bohemians and artists, and more recently as a tourist attraction offering a taste of the frontier experience to visitors from around the world. James's text brings the Comstock to life again in all its complexity and boom-and-bust excitement. This book offers a wealth of new information and insight into the history of one of the Old West's most storied areas.".
- catalog contributor b10898779.
- catalog coverage "Comstock Lode (Nev.) History.".
- catalog coverage "Virginia City (Nev.) History.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "1. A Glimmer of Opportunity: The Setting -- 2. The First Boom: Building the Community -- 3. The First Boom: Building the Mines -- 4. Grief, Depression, and Disasters: Successes in the Midst of Failures -- 5. A Time of Bonanza -- 6. The Workers: Labor in an Industrialized Community -- 7. The International Community: Ethnicity Celebrated -- 8. The Moral Options: Sinners -- 9. The Moral Options: Saints -- 10. Princes and Paupers: Contrasts in Class -- 11. Over Time: Bonanza and Borrasca (1877-1942) -- 12. The Sequel to the Big Bonanza: Tourism and Television.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The Roar and the Silence chronicles the area's history from its earliest days through the early twentieth century, when the lode finally gave out ant the Comstock sank into silent decay, and up to the present, when Virginia City and its environs found new life, first as a community of bohemians and artists, and more recently as a tourist attraction offering a taste of the frontier experience to visitors from around the world. James's text brings the Comstock to life again in all its complexity and boom-and-bust excitement. This book offers a wealth of new information and insight into the history of one of the Old West's most storied areas.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 355 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Roar and the silence.".
- catalog identifier "0874173205 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Roar and the silence.".
- catalog isPartOf "Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities (Unnumbered)".
- catalog isPartOf "Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reno : University of Nevada Press,".
- catalog relation "Roar and the silence.".
- catalog spatial "Comstock Lode (Nev.) History.".
- catalog spatial "Nevada Virginia City".
- catalog spatial "Virginia City (Nev.) History.".
- catalog subject "979.3/56 21".
- catalog subject "F849.V8 J35 1998".
- catalog subject "Mines and mineral resources Nevada Virginia City History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. A Glimmer of Opportunity: The Setting -- 2. The First Boom: Building the Community -- 3. The First Boom: Building the Mines -- 4. Grief, Depression, and Disasters: Successes in the Midst of Failures -- 5. A Time of Bonanza -- 6. The Workers: Labor in an Industrialized Community -- 7. The International Community: Ethnicity Celebrated -- 8. The Moral Options: Sinners -- 9. The Moral Options: Saints -- 10. Princes and Paupers: Contrasts in Class -- 11. Over Time: Bonanza and Borrasca (1877-1942) -- 12. The Sequel to the Big Bonanza: Tourism and Television.".
- catalog title "The roar and the silence : a history of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode / Ronald M. James.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".