Silver Theatre: Amusements of Nevada's Mining Frontier, 1850 to 1864

Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1964 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. One of 2053 copies. 387pp. Illustrations, folding map, index. Blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. The slightest of rubbing to spine ends, but a very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket lightly toned and chipped). Year-by-year history of entertainment in early-day Nevada: Washoe's first theater, Mark Twain, Lotta Crabtree, Bonanza theater, gambling, prize fights, benefits, glee clubs, dances, parades, hurdy-gurdy girls, etc. Includes accounts of Virginia City, Austin, Carson, Gold Hill, Silver City, and other areas. [Clark and Brunet I: 266; Clark and Brunet II: 298; Paher: 2107]..