The Infamous King of the Comstock: William Sharon and the Gilded Age in the West

by Michael J. Makley

Book Overview

William Sharon was one of the most colorful scoundrels in the nineteenth-century mining West. He epitomized the robber barons of the nation's Gilded Age and the political corruption and moral decay... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874177790
• ISBN13: 9780874177794
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"