Downsizing from my personal collection I am offering 7 books dealing with the mining of gold and silver if the history of the COMSTOCK IN NEVADA, TRUCKEE and THE HISTORY OF STEAM LOCOMOTIVES during that period books are in good condition and are filled with vintage photos of the towns, lodes, steam locomotives of the era.
1--VIGINIA CITY and TRUCKEE, a story of Virginia City and Comstack Times, by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg, published 1963 by Howell North, softcover
2--HISTORY OF THE COMSTOCK SILVER LODE AND MINES, by Dan De Quille (William Wright), published in 1974, by Promontory Publications, with 158 pages, hardback. musty smell but book is in very good condition.
3--HISTORY IF THE COMSTOCK LODE, by Lucius Beebee and Charles Clegg, c/r 1950, this edition 1956, with 85 pages, softcover
4--HISTORY OF THE COMSTOCK LOAD 1850-1920, c/r 1943 this the 9th printing in 1980 only 4000 copies, by the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, the Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, with 305 pages, softcover
5--STEAMCARS TO THE COMSTOCK, by Lucius Beebee and Charles Clegg, c/r 1957, this the 3rd edition, 4th printing of 1970, with 108 pages: the Virginia & Truckee Railroad and the Carson & Colorado Railroad, hardback
6--THE FIRST QUARTER CENTURY IF STEAM LOCOMOTIVES IN NORTH AMERICA by Smith Hempstone Oliver, U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN #210, and the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, published in 1956, with 112 pages remaining relics and operable replicas.
7--COMSTOCK ORIGINALS: INIMITABLE INDIVIDUALS AND INCIDENTS IN AND ABOUT TOWNSHIPS OF VIRGINIA CITY AND GOLD HILL, by Gerald Jones, c/r 2005 this 3rd edition published in 2008, with 109 pages, softcover
8--THE STORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL HOTEL(Virginia City) titled ELEGANCE ON C STREET, by Richard C. Datin, c/r 1966, this edition published in 1977, with 48 pages, softcover
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Please have exact cash for exchange at my house on hill or nearby in parking area next to Dutch Brothers Coffee at the corner of 5th and A street in downtown Springfield
Great opportunity to obtain a history of the Comstock in one bundled sale-save in time and gas searching or finding an extensive historical collection