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Comstock Lode Vocabulary Word List (265)
| A) | Abandon, Advantage, Affect, Alcoholism, Altitude, American West, Amounts, Anticipation, Anxiety, Area, Assay, Assist, Attempt |
| B) | Bankruptcy, Beckon, Belief, Bimetallism, Blaze, Bonanza, Boom, Boom town, Boundary, Broke, Burden, Buried, Bust, Bustle |
| C) | Cabins, California, Camp, Capital, Challenges, Claim, Climb, Coinage, Cold, Collecting, Commodity, Commotion, Competition, Complications, Comstock Lode, Conceal, Conditions, Copper, Cover, Covert, Cradle, Creek, Currency, Cutthroat |
| D) | Death, Debris, Delivery, Demand, Deny, Deposit, Descent, Despair, Detect, Detection, Determination, Develop, Difficult, Dirt, Disadvantage, Discovery, Dishonest, Dispute, Ditch, Document, Doubt, Dream, Dreary |
| E) | Effect, Embedded, Engineering, Epic, Equipment, Eventful, Evidence, Excavate, Excitement, Exhaustion, Exploit, Explore, Exposure |
| F) | Fever, Flock, Foil, Formation, Fortune, Fortune hunter, Freewheeling, Frontier |
| G) | Gambling, George Hearst, Grosh (Ethan and Hosea) |
| H) | Hardship, Hardworking, Heat, Henry Comstock, Heritage, Hidden, Historical, Honest, Hope, Horseback, Horses, Hunger |
| I) | Illness, Impact, Information, Interaction, Interest, Investment, Issues |
| J) | James C. Flood, Jinx, Journey, Joy |
| L) | Labor, Laborer, Lacking, Law, Lawless, Lead, Legal, Load, Lode, Lodging, Losses, Luck, Lure |
| M) | Mania, Map, Measure, Memorabilia, Mercantile, Metal, Metallic Ore, Millionaires, Mills, Miner, Minerals, Mining, Mining, Miserable, Monetary, Money, Monitor, Mountains, Movement |
| N) | Nasty, Neglect, Nevada, Nugget, Numbers |
| O) | Obsession, Obstacle, Official, Opportunist, Opportunity, Ore, Overland, Ownership |
| P) | Pack animals, Panning, Passion, Path, Persuade, Pick ax, Piles, Pioneers, Pipeline, Play out, Preserve, Prices, Primitive, Produce, Profit, Prospect, Prospector, Purpose |
| Q) | Quality, Quantity, Quartz, Quest |
| R) | Recovery, Region, Rental, Reveal, Risk, Rock, Rough, Route, Rugged, Rush, Rustic |
| S) | Sacrifices, Scale, Scarcity, Seek, Serious, Settle, Settlement, Shack, Sierra Mountains, Sift, Sky-high, Slogan, Smelt, Soldiers, Spur, Stage coach, Stake, Standard, Stealing, Strike, Struggle, Supplies, Supply, Sway |
| T) | Thousands, Toil, Toll, Tools, Town, Trail, Transportation, Treasure, Trial, Trouble, Tunneling |
| U) | Undergo, Unfortunate, Unique, Unscrupulous, Unusual |
| V) | Value, Vein, Verify, Vicinity, Virginia City |
| W) | Wagering, Wagons, Water, Wealth, Weary, Weather, Weigh, West, Western, Westward, Wilderness, William Jennings Bryan, Witness, Work, Worthless |
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Did you know?
Samuel Clemens lived in Virginia City as a newspaperman. During his stay there, in his younger days, he began using the name Mark Twain. He even worked in the Comstock Mills! He published "Roughing It" in 1872 and included a passage that read: " There is nothing so aggravating as silver mining."
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