Bowers Mansion
The Legacy of a Comstock Family
Ronald M James author Tamera J Buzick author Michael A Bedeau author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Nevada Press
Publishing:24th Mar '26
£21.99
This title is due to be published on 24th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Few estates born from the discovery of the Comstock Lode still survive. Among the grandest, Bowers Mansion, dates to the height of the Civil War. The property has a tragic history shrouded in legend, laid bare within these pages: from the mansion’s construction; to Eilley Bowers’s fight to maintain the property after her husband’s death, running it as a resort and telling fortunes; to the mansion’s restoration in the sixties with aid of a handful of determined women. Bowers Mansion: The Legacy of a Comstock Family is a tale of wealth and poverty, of decay and revival, offering up a powerful story from Nevada’s history for readers of all kinds to enjoy.
“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
“This is an excellent compilation of the tale of Eilley Oram Bowers and her mansion.” - Robert Stewart, independent historian and editor of The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh
ISBN: 9781647792237
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
Weight: 454g
200 pages