About the Author

Grant Horace Smith (1865-1944) worked as a mining attorney in San Francisco. His youth was spent on the Comstock in the bonanza days as an inquisitive youngster and young miner; then he taught school and studied law and was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Nevada in 1890.

Reviews

Smith's scholarly investigation of the Comstock Lode sets right many of the errors perpetrated by Lord, Shinn, and Wright."" —Western Mining