Examples of Comstock Lode in the following topics:
-
Mining on the Comstock Lode
- The Comstock Lode was the first major U.S. discovery of silver ore, located in what is now Virginia City, Nevada in 1857.
- The Comstock Lode was the first major U.S. discovery of silver ore, located in what is now Virginia City, Nevada, on the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range.
- The Comstock Lode is notable not just for the immense fortunes it generated and the large role those fortunes had in the growth of Nevada and San Francisco, but also for the advances in mining technology that it spurred.
- Unlike most silver ore deposits, which occur in long thin veins, those of the Comstock Lode occurred in discrete masses, often hundreds of feet thick.
-
Gold Fever in the West
- The discovery of the Comstock Lode, containing vast amounts of silver, resulted in the Nevada boomtowns of Virginia City, Carson City, and Silver City.
-
Women in the West
- In 1860, in the Comstock Lode region of Nevada, for example, there were reportedly only 30 women in a town with some 2,500 men.
- Protestant missionaries eventually joined the women in their efforts, and Congress responded by passing both the Comstock Law (named after its chief proponent, anti-obscenity crusader Anthony Comstock) in 1873 to ban the spread of “lewd and lascivious literature” through the mail, and the subsequent Page Act of 1875 to prohibit transportation of women into the United States for employment as prostitutes.
-
The New Feminism
- Anthony Comstock, a postal inspector and leader in the purity movement, successfully lobbied for the passage of the 1873 Comstock Act, a federal law prohibiting mailing of "any article or thing designed or intended for the prevention of conception or procuring of abortion," as well as any form of contraceptive information.
- Many states also passed similar state laws (collectively known as the Comstock laws), that extended the federal law by outlawing the use of contraceptives, as well as their distribution.
- At the turn of the century, an energetic movement arose, centered in Greenwich Village, that sought to overturn anti-obscenity laws and the Comstock Acts.
- Under the influence of Goldman and the Free Speech League, Sanger became determined to challenge the Comstock laws that outlawed the dissemination of contraceptive information.