Comstock lode : a novel / Louis L'Amour ; postscript by Beau L'Amour.
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TextPublisher: New York : Bantam Books, 2020Description: 612 pages : illustration ; 18 cmContent type: still image | cartographic image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0552119830; 0553253891 (pbk.); 0553275615 (pbk.); 9780553275612 (pbk.)Subject(s): Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada -- Fiction | Silver miners -- Fiction | Silver mines and mining -- Fiction | Comstock Lode (Nev.) -- Fiction | Nevada -- FictionGenre/Form: Western stories DDC classification: 813.54 Summary: It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures--they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway, a radiantly beautiful actress driven by an unfulfilled need. Two fiercely independent spirits, together they rose above the challenges of the Comstock to stake a bold claim on the future.
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Includes an interview with the author.
Originally published: 1981.
It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures--they were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raise a legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. Val Trevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway, a radiantly beautiful actress driven by an unfulfilled need. Two fiercely independent spirits, together they rose above the challenges of the Comstock to stake a bold claim on the future.
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