CHRONICLING THE COMSTOCK
alifornian Gregory Crouch has written about mountain climbing in Patagonia () and World War II aviation in Asia (). He sticks closer to home in his latest book, a narrative nonfiction account of industrialist John Mackay and Nevada’s Comstock Lode that’s a lot more than a biography. also takes in social history, Irish-American history, the slums of New York, Western mining towns, mine disasters, strikes, bank kings, frontier justice, engineering and about the book and his interest in the Old West.
