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Maguire’s Opera House in Virginia City, NV – with a local to run it, John Burns

before he has to sell it to Piper; by 1865 there are FIVE light-opera theatres, SIX variety houses in Virginia City and it’s outer towns – a suburb called Gold Hill.

Turning point of the war, the southern invasion of the North retreats, they’re over-exposed – doomed to fail news of the Union capture of Vicksburg and the victory at Gettysburg came over the telegraph wire but the couldn’t print it because of the damned monopoly of the wire service to the California Paper that got […]