Virginia City, MT Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Much of the wealth on which Carson City – and indeed San Francisco – was built came from the silver mines of the Comstock Lode , a solid seam of pure silver discovered underneath Mount Hamilton, fourteen miles east of Carson City off US-50, in 1859. Raucous VIRGINIA CITY grew up on the steep slopes above the mines, and a young writer named Samuel Clemens made his way here from the east with his older brother, the acting Secretary to the Governor of the Nevada Territory, to see what all the fuss was about. His descriptions of the wild life of the mining camp, and of the desperately hard work men put in to get at the … more »