Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom: Tonopah, Goldfield, Ely

Twenty years after the decline of the magnificent Comstock Lode, Nevada’s prosperity and population had diminished to such a degree that some popular articles questioned whether to deprive Nevada of her statehood. Then in the spring of 1900, a miner discovered silver in south-central Nevada. This casual find precipitated a spectacular latter-day mining boom that, among other things, helped to restore prosperity. With its wealth of little-known historical data, Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining B…