The Pioneers: A Tale of Two States (Annotated and Expanded Edition)

The Comstock Lode in Nevada, the richest gold and silver strike in the history of North America, is the setting for this western. Into the maelstrom created by its discovery will be drawn an innocent young girl who catches the eye of a scoundrel, a generous old man who tries to save everyone, and the wealthiest man in Nevada with the portentous name of Black Dan and his willful beauty of a daughter.
Fortunes are won and lost overnight by the investors in the rich gold and silver strikes of the Nevada hills, driving them to deeds of folly, evil, and great acts of heroism. Like the stamping machines that separate the gold and silver from the ore, Geraldine Bonner tests the metal of her characters by the application of tremendous social or financial pressure: sudden riches and precipitous failures of the mines and people’s fortunes, rise and plummets in social standing, lust, love, and the brutal realities of the Comstock Lode.
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