Stories from Virginia City and Gold Hill, Nevada
Struck First, Remembered Second: The Founding of Gold Hill, Nevada
September 6, 2026
Eight Years Looking for Silver: How Virginia City’s Savage Mine Kept Digging Between Bonanzas
September 6, 2026
Beyond the Mines: Daily Life in 1870s Virginia City
September 6, 2026
The 601: Vigilante Justice in Virginia City
Late one March night in 1871, masked men sealed the streets around Virginia City's jail, forced their way inside, and…
September 5, 2026
Property Lines 2,000 Feet Underground
In 1867, a federal judge ordered one of the Comstock's great mining companies to admit a rival survey party underground….
September 5, 2026
Beneath Virginia City and Gold Hill: The Sutro Tunnel’s Great Comstock Gamble
Adolph Sutro promised a tunnel that could drain the Comstock, carry ore and miners, improve ventilation, and provide another road…
September 5, 2026
Six Hundred Crystals: The Famous Chandelier of Virginia City’s Crystal Bar
A saloon dismantled and hauled across town. A Prohibition disguise as an ice cream parlor. Virginia City's famous chandelier survived…
September 5, 2026
Ghosts of Virginia City: The Stories, the Scares, and the True History Behind Them
September 1, 2026
The Founding of Virginia City and Nevada’s Path to Statehood
September 1, 2026
More Than Silver: The Women Who Built the Comstock
September 1, 2026
Did John Millain Really Kill Julia Bulette? Weighing the Case Against the Comstock’s Convicted Man
September 1, 2026
Keep Your Seat, Horace: Hank Monk, the Comstock’s Most Famous Stage Driver
September 1, 2026
The Tomb of the Sierra: How Lake Tahoe’s Forests Built the Mines Beneath Virginia City
August 31, 2026
The Morning Virginia City Burned
August 31, 2026
Julia Bulette’s Last Night: Murder, Evidence, and Legend in Virginia City
August 31, 2026
John Mackay: How a Working Miner Became the King of the Comstock
August 31, 2026
One-Eyed Charley Parkhurst: The Stagecoach Legend Whose Secret Shocked the West
August 31, 2026
Diagnostic Test Page — Please Ignore
August 31, 2026
Have We Found the Real Julia Bulette Gravesite?
August 31, 2026
The 1869 Yellow Jacket Mine Fire: Nevada’s Deadliest Mining Disaster
August 30, 2026
Behind the Swinging Doors: What Virginia City’s Saloons Were Really Like
August 30, 2026
Foreign-Born and Indispensable: Immigrant Labor and the Making of the Comstock
August 30, 2026
Silver Mountain: Life and Loss in Virginia City’s Chinatown
Chinese immigrants built one of Nevada's largest Chinatowns in Virginia City. Discover the community's rise, daily life, and near-total disappearance.
August 29, 2026
The Globe Hotel: The Fire Beneath Virginia City’s Fourth Ward School
August 27, 2026
The Fourth Ward School: Virginia City’s Monument to Education
August 27, 2026
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The Comstock Never Belonged Only to the Men Walk down C Street today and the story you hear is usually…
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The Comstock Never Belonged Only to the Men Walk down C Street today and the story you hear is usually…
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The Comstock Never Belonged Only to the Men Walk down C Street today and the story you hear is usually…
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