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The fascinating account of William Sharon, legendary scoundrel and visionary capitalist who controlled more than a dozen of the greatest mines on Nevada's mighty Comstock Lode, built the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, manipulated speculation and prices on the San Francisco Stock Exchange, and revived the collapsed Bank of California, and the Gilded Age of the American West.Makley, Michael J. is the author of 'Infamous King of the Comstock William Sharon And the Gilded Age in the West', published 2006 under ISBN 9780874176308 and ISBN 0874176301.
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