Crimes of the Comstock Lode

by Geraldine Bonner, Barbara Flanagan (Editor)

The Comstock Lode in Nevada, the richest gold and silver strike in the history of North America, is the setting for this western. Into the maelstrom created by its discovery will be drawn an innocent young girl who catches the eye of a scoundrel, a generous old man who tries to save everyone, and the wealthiest man in Nevada with the portentous name of Black Dan and his willful beauty of a daughter.
Fortunes are won and lost overnight by the investors in the rich gold and silver strikes of the Nevada hills, driving them to deeds of folly, evil, and great acts of heroism. Like the stamping machines that separate the gold and silver from the ore, Geraldine Bonner tests the metal of her characters by the application of tremendous social or financial sudden riches and precipitous failures of the mines and people’s fortunes, rise and plummets in social standing, lust, love, and the brutal realities of the Comstock Lode.

270 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 6, 2015

About the author

"Geraldine Bonner (1870-1930) was an American author, born on Staten Island, New York. Her father, John Bonner was a journalist and historical writer. As a child, Geraldine Bonner moved to Colorado where she lived in mining camps. After moving to San Francisco, California, she worked at a newspaper, the Argonaut, in 1887, and subsequently. She wrote the novel Hard Pan (1900) and used the name Hard Pan as a pseudonym.

Bonner wrote short stories which were published in Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, Harper's Monthly, and Lippincott's."

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