It’s 1864 in Virginia City, Nevada Territory. Statehood is in the future for Nevada and Gil Ross is sent by the government to inspect the potential wealth of the region. Ross, a former magazine writer and now a mine inspector quickly becomes embroiled in the violence and treachery of the region.
Between armed holdups, duels, torching of the newspaper office , befriending Samuel Clemens, and being left to die in a mine there’s so much going on in this short novel. And there’s so much interesting historical detail here about life in the Washoe region, I couldn’t put it down.
Jan
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