Book Signing: The Bonanza King

660 East Grove Street,Reno NV 89502

25 March, 2022

Description

Join us for a Book Signing + Reading with Gregory Crouch 4:30pm Short Reading + Q&A 5pm Signing + Mingle John Mackay was a stuttering miner who walked 100 miles to the Comstock Lode. He became one of the wealthiest people in the world. Along the way, he fought the bankers and many technical challenges. In The Bonanza King, Gregory Crouch tells Mackay’s amazing story—how he extracted the ore from deep underground and used his vast mining fortune to crush the transatlantic telegraph monopoly of the notorious Jay Gould. “No one does a better job than Crouch when he explores the subject of mining, and no one does a better job than he when he describes the hardscrabble lives of miners” (San Francisco Chronicle). Featuring great period photographs and maps, The Bonanza King is a dazzling tour de force, a riveting history of Virginia City, Nevada, the Comstock Lode, and America itself. RSVPs appreciated, but not required. Feel free to drop in.