Included in this limited edition series are images from our Artwestimage.com exploration of Virginia City, Nevada. The 19th century mining boom turned Virginia City into the most
important industrial city between Denver and San Francisco and it
turned destitute prospectors from all over the world into millionaires.
In 1868, Mark Twain
reminisced about his journalism career, which began in Nevada with the
Virginia City Territorial Enterprise: "To find a petrified
man, or break a stranger's leg, or cave an imaginary mine, or discover
some dead Indians in a Gold Hill tunnel, or massacre a family at Dutch
Nick's, were feats and calamities that we never hesitated about devising
when the public needed matters of thrilling interest for breakfast. The daily Enterprise office was a ghastly factory of slaughter, mutilation and general destruction in those days."
—Mark Twain's Letters from Washington, Territorial Enterprise.
Included in this feature are images from the Silver Terrace Cemetery, atop a windswept hillside of Virginia City. A wide variety of fraternal, civic and religious
groups established burial yards there. Artwestimage.com explored the ghostly grounds, including the plots of the Masons, Pacific Coast Pioneers, Knights of Pythias, Virginia City
Firemen, Wilson and Brown, Improved Order of Redmen, Roman Catholic, and
the city and county poor fields. The inscriptions on the markers give testimony to the
social and economic fabric of Virginia City during the early years. The birthplaces noted provide a glimpse
of the scope of immigration and the death years attest to the hardship of those early pioneers, as many passed before their time.
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