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BIBLIOGRAPHY
ARCHIVAL AND PRINTED SOURCES
Archival Sources
[Only sources cited in footnotes are listed. A source may contain many files, folders,
volumes and boxes: e.g. NC99, UNR, has at least 199 volumes and 14 boxes for which
there is a Guide.]
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Mexican Gold and Silver Mining Company, MSS P-G295.
Pacific Mill and Mining Company, Records, 1865-1884, P-G 207.
Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Nevada Mining Company Collection, Savage and Hale & Norcross Mining Cos., C2.
Nevada Historical Society, Reno.
Mackay, Fair, Flood & O’Brien Archives, NC356.
Ophir Mining Company, MS-NC613.
Sutro Tunnel Company, MS-NC3.
Nevada State Archives, Carson City, NV.
Abstracts, Story County (Mining Proceeds) Assessment Records.
Special Collections, Library, University of Nevada at Reno.
Belcher Silver Mining Company, Records, 1871-1893, NC92.
Crown Point Gold and Silver Mining Company, Records, 1861-1909, NC85.
Mackay, Fair & Co., NC95.
Miner’s Union of Story and Lyon Counties, Agreements, 1877, NC1159.
Ophir Silver Mining Company, NC56.
Pacific Mill and Mining Company, Records, 1876-1894, NC80.
Savage Mining Company, Records, 1865-1881, NC62.
Smith, Grant Horace, History of the Comstock Lode [and “Notes” and “Binders”],
NC229.
Sutro Tnnnel Company, Records, 1865-1909, NC7.
The Consolidated Virginia Mining Company (and California Mining Company), NC99.
The County Microfilm Project , Story County (Mining Proceeds) Assessment Records
ST67.
Story County, Assessor’s Office, Virginia City, NV.
Assessment Records, Ledgers for 1875-1877.
Printed Sources
[All of the official reports of the Territory and the State of Nevada plus compilations of
statutes and laws were available in the Nevada State Library and Archives, Carson City,
NV.]
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Baily, Dave and John D. Hammond, editors. The General Statutes of the State of Nevada
in Force from 1861 to 1885 Inclusive…. Carson City, NV: Josiah Harlow,
Superintendent, State Printing, 1885.
Becker, George F. Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Geology of the Comstock
Lode and the Washoe District. Washington, DC: Department of the Interior, 1882.
Bonnifield M. S. and T. W. Healy, compilers. The Compiled Laws of the State of Nevada
Embracing Statutes of 1861 to 1873, Inclusive. 2 volumes. Carson City, NV: Charles A.
V. Putman, State Printer, 1873.
Controllers’ Reports, Governors’ Messages, Mineralogists’ Reports from Appendices to
the Journals of the Senate and the Assembly, 7th-13th Legislative Sessions. [1875-1885]
Controllers’ Reports, Mineralogists’ Reports, Surveyors-General’s Reports from Senate
Journal and Appendix, 4th-6th Legislative Sessions. [1865-1873]
DeQuille, Dan [William Wright]. A History of the Comstock Lode and Mines…. Virginia,
NV: F. Boegle, 1889.
DeQuille, Dan [William Wright]. The Big Bonanza, An Authentic Account of the
Discovery, History, and Working of the World-renowned Comstock Lode of Nevada….
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1947.
Gamboa, Francisco Javier. Comentarios a las Ordenanzas de Minas… Madrid, 1761.
Hauge, James D. U. S. Explorations of the 40th Parallel.
Laughlin, J. Laurence. The History Bimetallism in the United States. New York: D.
Appleton and Company, 1900.
Laws of the Territory of Nevada. 2nd and 3rd Territorial Legislative Sessions. Virginia,
NV: John Church & Co., Territorial Printers, 1862.
Lord, Eliot. Comstock Mining and Miners. Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1859. [Reprint
of 1883 edition.]
Shaw, W. A. The History of Currency 1252 to 1984…. London: Wilson & Milne, 1900.
The Territorial Enterprise, 16 March 1876, 21 February 1877, 6 May 1877 and 28
November 1877.
Treadwell, J. B., compiler. “Graphic Chart of the Comstock Mines, State of Nevada,
1876,” issued with the San Francisco News Letter, 3 June 1876, on file, G4352 C6 1876
T7, at Special Collections, Library, University of Nevada, Reno.
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Twain, Mark [Samuel Clemens]. Roughing It. New York: Penguin Books. 1981. [Reprint
of 1872 edition.]
von Richthofen Baron Ferdinand. The Comstock Lode: its character, and the probable
mode of its continuance in depth. [1866] Library, University of Nevada, Reno.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
[Since 1900, not including material from WEB]
Adams, Romanzo. Taxation in Nevada, A History. Carson City, NV: State Printing
Office, [Publication of the Nevada Historical Society], 1918.
Bakewell, Peter. Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth-Century Potosí, The Life
and Times of Antonio López de Quiroga. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico
Press, 1988.
Bakewell, Peter. Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico, Zacatecas 1546-1700.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971.
Bakewell, Peter. “Mining in Colonial Spanish America,” in Leslie Bethell, editor, The
Cambridge History of Latin America, The Colonial Period. 2 volumes. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1984, 2: 105-151.
Bargalló, Modesto. La minería y la metalurgía en la América española durante la época
colonial. Mexico, 1955.
Bethell, Leslie, editor. The Cambridge History of Latin America, The Colonial Period. 2
volumes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Brown, Ronald. Hard-Rock Miners, The Intermountain West, 1860-1920. College
Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1979.
Butler, Anne M. “Mission in the Mountains, The Daughters of Charity in Virginia City,”
in Roland James and C. Elizabeth Raymond editors, Comstock Women, The Making of a
Mining Community. Reno & Las Vegas, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1998.
Castor, S. B., K. G. Papke and R. O. Meeuwig, editors. Betting on Industrial Minerals,
Proceedings of the 39th Forum on Geology of Industrial Minerals, May 19-21, 2003.
Sparks, NV: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication, 33.
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, editor. The Journals of Alfred Doten 1849-1903. 3 volumes.
Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1973.
Couch, Bertrand and Jay Carpenter. “Nevada’s Metal and Mineral Production (18591940, Inclusive), University of Nevada Bulletin, 37:4 (1943), [Geology and Mining Series
No. 38, Nevada State Bureau of Mines and Mackay School of Mines].
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Couturier, Edith. The Silver King, The Remarkable Life of the Count of Regla in Colonial
Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.
David, Lance and Robert Cull. “ Capital Movements, Markets, and Growth, 1820-1914,”
in Stanley Engerman and Robert Gallman, editors, The Long Nineteenth Century,
Volume 2 of The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. 2 Volumes.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Elliott, Russell. Servant Power, A Political Biography of Senator William M. Stewart.
Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, Nevada Studies in History and Political Science,
# 18, 1983.
Engerman, Stanley and Robert Gallman, editors. The Long Nineteenth Century, Volume
2 in The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. 2 volumes. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Engerman, Stanley and Kenneth Sokoloff. “Technology and Industrialization, 17901914,” in Stanley Engerman and Robert Gallman, editors, The Long Nineteenth Century.
Volume 2 of The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. 2 volumes.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Friedman, Milton and Anna Schwartz. A Monetary History of the United States 18671960. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963.
Friedman, Milton and Anna Schwartz. Monetary Statistics of the United States.
Estimates, Sources, Methods. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research and
Columbia University Press, 1970.
Gallman, Robert. “Growth and Change in the Long Nineteenth Century” in Stanley
Engerman and Robert Gallman, editors, The Long Nineteenth Century, volume 2 of The
Cambridge Economic History of the United States. 2 volumes. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000.
Garner, Richard L. “Long-Term Silver Mining Trends in Spanish America: A
Comparative Analysis of Peru and Mexico,” American Historical Review, 93:4 (1988)
898-935.
Garner, Richard L. “Silver Mining Trends in Colonial Latin American Mining”, available
from author.
Hickson, Howard. Mint Mark “CC”, The Story of the United States Mint at Carson City,
Nevada. Carson City, NV: The Nevada State Museum, 1972.
Hulse, James W. The Silver State, Nevada’s Heritage Reinterpreted. 2nd edition. Reno &
Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1998.
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Hyde, Anne. “The Comstock Lode or, A Crucible of Militant Unionism.” Paper
Submitted for Degree of A. B. with Honors, Department of History, Mt Holyoke College,
1982.
James, Ronald and C. Elizabeth Raymond editors. Comstock Women, The Making of a
Mining Community. Reno & Las Vegas, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1998.
James, Ronald. The Roar and the Silence, A History of Virginia City and the Comstock
Lode. Reno & Las Vegas, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1998.
Jung, Maureen Bloomquist. “The Comstock and the California Mining Economy, 18481900: The Stock Market and the Modern Corporation.” PhD dissertation, University of
California, Santa Barbara, 1988).
Lyman, George. Ralston’s Ring California Plunders the Comstock Lode. New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937.
Lyman, George. The Sage of the Comstock Lode. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1937
Manter, Ethel. Rocket of the Comstock (The Story of John William Mackay). Caldwell,
ID: Caxton Printers, 1950.
Price, Jonathan G. “Geology of Nevada,” in S.B. Castor, K. G. Papke and R. O.
Meeuwig, editors, Betting on Industrial Minerals, Proceedings of the 39th Forum on
Geology of Industrial Minerals, May 19-21, 2003. Sparks, NV: Nevada Bureau of Mines
and Geology Special Publication, 33.
Smith, Grant H. The History of the Comstock Lode1850-1997 [with new material by
Joseph V. Tingley]. Reno & Las Vegas: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology with
University of Nevada Press, 1998.
Tingley, Joseph. Mining Districts of Nevada. 2nd edition. Nevada Bureau of Mines and
Geology Report 47, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, 1998.
Wyman, Mark. Hard Rock Epic, Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution 18601910. Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1979.
WEB MATERIALS AND ADDRESSES
Hill, Earl, Esquire. “A Brief History of the Nevada Law of Mining”,
www.library.lp.findlaw.com.
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Fundamentals of Physical Geography. Chapter 10 “Introduction to the Lithosphere”,
“The Rock Cycle” and “Structure of the Earth”,
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Census of 1880. Volume 13, Statistics and Technology of the Precious Metals,
www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/1880htm.
Ferguson, Henry G. and Roger W. Gannett. Gold Quartz Veins of the Alleghany District
California. Washington, DC: United States Department of Interior, Geological Survey,
Professional Paper 172, 1932), www.origsix.com, [web site for Original Sixteen to One
Mine, Inc.]
Hudson, D. M. “Summary of the Geology of the Comstock District, Nevada,” in J. L.
Johnson, ed., Bulk Mineral Precious Metal Deposits of the Western United States.
Guidebook for Field Trips (Geological Society of Nevada, 1987); also
www.seismo.unr.edu.
Jersey, David and Donald Tarman. “Igneous Rock Identification, Nature’s Fiery
Cauldron”, www.geology.csupomona.edu.
Nevada Commission on Mineral Resources, www.minerals.state.nv.us.
Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Corrective Actions, Superfund
Branch, ndep.nv.gov/bca/carsonriver/criver_3.htm.
Pees, Samuel. [Concerning invention and development of drills and bits],
www.oilhistory.com.
Quarterly Newsletter of Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (Winter 1992),
www.nbmg.unr.edu.
Rocha, Guy. “The Many Images of the Comstock Miners’ Unions”,
www.nevadalabor.com/rocha.html.
Silicates, www.theimage.com/mineral/class.htm.
Tunnel Data, www.boudillion.com/hoosac.
USGS/NPS. (United States Geologic Service and United States National Park Service),
[references to rocks, minerals and other geological materials],
www.volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/VolRocks.html.
Volti, R. “Pneumatic Drills,” The Facts on File, Encyclopedia of Science, Technology,
and Society. New York: Facts on File, Inc, 1999, 2003. Also www.fofweb.com.
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Yang, Kai, Jonathan F. Huntington and Joseph W. Boardman. “Mapping the Comstock
Epithermal Mineralization System, Nevada, Using Simulated ARIES-I Hyperspectral
Data,” www.gisdevelopment.et/aars/acrs/1999/ts10.
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