Virginia City: Secrets of a Western Past

by Ronald M. James

Spent cartridges. The pieces of an original Tabasco Pepper Sauce bottle. Shards of a ceramic pot, stained red. For archaeologists each of the thousands of artifacts uncovered at a site tells a story. For noted Comstock authority Ronald M. James, it is a story resulting from decades of research and excavation at one of the largest National Historic Landmarks in America, the Nevada town that, with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, became a boomtown...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803238487
• ISBN13: 9780803238480
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"