Description: "Bowers Mansion, one of the grandest estates to survive from the great gold and silver mines of the Comstock Lode, has remained a cherished icon since its construction in 1863. This compelling account is a tale of wealth and poverty, of decay and revival, offering up a powerful story from Nevada's history"--
Review Quotes: "With 'money to throw at the birds, ' Sandy and Eilley Bowers created a monument to early-day Nevada mining wealth and extravagance. Tamera Buzick, with assistance from Ronald James and Michael Bedeau, has produced the landmark's definitive treatment."
--Michael J. Makley, author of Imposing Order without Law: American Expansion to the Eastern Sierra, 1850-1865
--Robert Stewart, independent historian and co-editor of The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh