RALSTON'S RING: California Plunders the Comstock Lode

RALSTON'S RING: California Plunders the Comstock Lode George D. Lyman hardcover in dustjacket, illustrated. 1st edition, Scribner's "A" . Published by Charles Scribner's Son's, New York, 1937. The Story of William Chapman Ralston and The Comstock Lode, discovered in 1859 in Nevada, was the first major U.S. silver deposit discovery, driving unprecedented wealth, technological innovation in mining, and the rapid development of Virginia City. It significantly impacted the American West by financing the Union during the Civil War, accelerating Nevada?s statehood in 1864, and transforming San Francisco. "solid jacket with some wear, tear, scuffs, cloth bleaching top edge, inside some marks and spots".