A case of good marketing for a town, Hamilton was also known as Treasure Hill. A mineral strike in January 1867 resulted in the “White Pine Excitement” and the founding of Treasure City (originally Tesora) perched on Treasure Hill. Silver ore assayed at as much as $15,000 per ton. The astounding figure was over three […]
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Aurora
A rival city to Virginia City emerges : Aurora In 1860, the discovery of gold and silver about eighty miles southeast of Virginia City led to the creation of the boomtown Aurora. E. R. Hicks, J. M. Corey, and James Braley made the find while on a hunting and prospecting expedition. On August 30, 1860, […]
Palisade
Easterners bound for the Wild West on the Central Pacific Railroad in didn’t mind the empty stretches of desert scenery, since there was a good chance they might see a real-life shootout once they stopped at the infamous town of Palisade, Nevada. Big-city newspapers picked up the local papers’ horrifying stories of bloodshed in Palisade, […]
