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The Incredible History of Virginia City, the City that Was Born of Silver and Became an Icon of the Old West
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In the mid-19th century, when the territory of Nevada still belonged to the expanding United States, a finding changed the local history forever: in 1859 the Comstock Lode, one of the richest silver deposits in the world, was discovered. That event gave rise to Virginia City, a city that grew at a dizzying pace. In just a decade, it went from an improvised mining camp to one of the most active and modern cities in the American West. By 1870, its…
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