"Comstock Lode" by Louis L'Amour. NY: Bantam, (1981). First edition. Dust Jacket Art by Louis S. Glanzman
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
It was just a godforsaken mountainside but no place on earth was richer in silver. The Comstock Lode. 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.
(What is the Comstock Lode? It is a lode of silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Nevada (then western Utah Territory). It was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States. It was discovered in 1859.)
"Comstock Lode" by Louis L'Amour. NY: Bantam, (1981). First edition. Dust Jacket Art by Louis S. Glanzman
From the blurb on the dust jacket:
It was just a godforsaken mountainside but no place on earth was richer in silver. The Comstock Lode. 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.
(What is the Comstock Lode? It is a lode of silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Nevada (then western Utah Territory). It was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States. It was discovered in 1859.)