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In the rip-roaring, true saga of the Comstock Lode, Dennis Drabelle skillfully brings alive silver-mining in the late-nineteenth-century American West. The huge riches extracted from the Lode spurred the progress of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, and Virginia City, the hell-raising town that sprang up above the mines, was the creativity for it series Bonanza. Innovations in Comstock mining - the use of underground "cubes" to avoid cave-ins and of elevators to bring ore to the surface - was adapted to make possible the present day skyscraper.The increase also accentuated less positive themes or templates in American background. The progress of Virginia City helped bring ruthless treatment of Native Americans. The potential risks and bills of deep mining lent themselves to stock-market manipulations and fraud on the grand level. To opportunists such as William M. Stewart, a mining legal professional and future U.S. Senatorwith a tenuous understanding of ethics, the Comstock experience supposed that the West belonged to the crafty and the strong. Perhaps the boom's most enduring legacy, however, was the education it offered to a great American copy writer: Symbol Twain. In Virginia City, the young journalist discovered the worthiness of plain but salty European speech and observed how he might use the brilliant simple fact of the frontier in the fantastic books of his future. Filled with colorful character types and get-rich-quick techniques, Mile-High Fever brings to light one of the least-known but most pivotal episodes in American background.
