Dirt Cheap - Virginia City, Nevada
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This episode takes Chas to Virginia City, Nevada where he explores the Virginia City Cemetery and Sawdust Trails. He dines and drinks at the Kettle Corn Depot, The Washoe Club, Silver Dollar Saloon, Red Dog Saloon and Bucket of Blood Saloon. If you're considering traveling to the Virginia City, Nevada, you can't miss this!
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Gun Show at Virginia City Nevada
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Virginia City Nevada Wild West Show, 8/19/15
Virginia City Nevada Wild West Show performed by the Virginia City Outlaws. Old west shoot out drama with lots of comedy, 8/19/15.
Virginia City, Montana.. Ghost Town
By definition, Virginia City, Montana is a ghost town, yet it is very much alive. Frozen in time, this historic city provides one of the best-preserved examples of the many mining camps of the American West.
Perched high in the Rocky Mountains in a bowl along Alder Gulch, Virginia City got its start when gold was discovered in Alder Gulch in 1863. Planning on keeping their discovery a secret, the men traveled to Bannack, some 60 miles to the southwest, for supplies. However, several sharp-eyed prospectors noticed their gold-filled sacks and when the men returned to Alder Gulch, some 200 miners were following them. News spread quickly and before long the area was flooded with prospectors living in makeshift shacks, tents, caves, or simply sleeping beneath the trees.
In the meantime, the nation was in the midst of the Civil War and though the gold brought emigrants from all over the world, overwhelmingly the influx of miners were rebels” from the South. Just weeks later, on June 16th, a town company began to plat the settlement. The intended on naming the town Verona, a misspelling of Varina,” the wife of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America. However, the newly elected miners' court judge, Dr. G. G. Bissell, was an equally stubborn Unionist who submitted the name Virginia instead.
The majority of avowed secessionists living in the camp, which was then part of Idaho Territory and therefore belonging to the Union, made it primarily a southern” town, with its residents’ sympathies lying with the Confederates. Furthermore, the camp was producing enough gold to win the Civil War for whoever could capture it. Due to this strategic position, President Lincoln soon sent northern emigrants into the mining camp to help hold the gold for the North. This of course caused all kinds of tension in the new city, which quickly became one of the most lawless places in the American West.
Virginia City, Montana With in a year, some 10,000 people were living in a number of mining camps lining the gulch and in 1864 Congress created the new territory of Montana, separating it from Idaho Territory. Bannack, the site of the first gold strike in the area, became the territory’s first capitol. However, just a year later, Virginia City had gained so much influence that the capitol was moved. Rapidly becoming the territory’s social center and transportation hub, the shanties and tents were replaced by permanent buildings and Virginia City became home to Montana's first public school, newspaper, and telegraph.
Virginia City and nearby Nevada City became known as the site of the richest placer gold strike in the Rocky Mountains. In the first three years alone, an estimated $30 million worth of gold was removed from the gulch.
Sheriff Henry Plummer Though a few of the miners made their fortunes in the gold fields, and even more businessmen became wealthy, there was yet another group who planned on gaining riches another way. These were the many road agents operating in the area Though historians dispute this today, the robbers and thieves were said to have been led by none other than the Sheriff, himself – Henry Plummer.
Time after time, miners, freight haulers, and stagecoaches lost anything of value to the bandits lurking about the trails to and from Virginia City. As a result, a secret society of vigilantes was formed to stop the outlaws. Lynchings became the common event of the day as the vigilantes hunted down the road agents, one by one, and stringing them up in the streets of Virginia City and Bannack. Though history now questions whether the many crimes were committed by highwaymen or perhaps the vigilantes, themselves, their is no question that the settlement was extreme in its lawlessness and violence.
No sooner than Virginia City had began to boom, when the city began its gradual decline. When gold was discovered in Last Chance Gulch in what is today Helena, the fickle miners began to move. Though gold continued to be found in the area, by the early 1870’s Virginia City's population had been reduced to only a few hundred. In 1875, the territorial capitol was moved to Helena and Virginia City was on her way to becoming a ghost town.
The Wild West Virginia City
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Virginia City is a small, basically one street town, in Nevada. It’s an old west town that had the richest deposit of silver and gold that ever struck in the continental U.S. There is great history on Virginia City, which makes entertaining present day attractions.
Some attractions Spekktacular saw and experienced were:
1. Virginia City Outlaws Wild West Show
2. Fourth Ward School Museum
3. Piper’s Opera House
4. Storey County Courthouse
5. The Comstock Lode History
6. Ponderosa Mine Tour
7. The Silver Terrace Cemeteries
8. Ghost Haunting at the Washoe Club Haunted Museum
9. Ghost Haunting at the Silver Queen Hotel
10. Shopping/ Virginia City Mall
11. Bars and live entertaining
12. The Way It Was Museum
13. Mark Twain Museum of Memories
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Similar to Virginia City ride. Went up Mt Bullion this time on the way back from Virginia City. Fantastic view from the top.
Take a trip to the Wild West
1,200 feet above the valley floor of Reno sits Virginia City, a 19th century mining boomtown that hasn’t lost its frontier flavor. Steeply set on the side of a mountain, the town overlooks miles of mine shafts left over from the Comstock Lode glory days—the first major silver deposit discovered in the United States.
Mark Twain penned his first words here. Saloon duels were fought here. And ghosts still reside here. If you have a hankering for authentic old west flavor, put Virginia City on your map.
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1st Annual Virginia City, NV Wild Horse Faire
Put on your boots and saddle up to Virginia City, Nevada on Saturday, August 23, 2014 for the 1st Annual Virginia City, NV Wild Horse Faire. Conceived as a benefit event to raise funds for Nevada’s wild horses, this full day event will include a parade, a concert, a benefit fair, booths with merchandise, food, beverages, arts and crafts, pony rides, face painting, train rides, a display by the Mustang Club of Reno, a raffle, a silent auction, live entertainment throughout the day, and much, much more.
With festivities beginning at 9:00am with a pancake breakfast, there’ll be a parade at 12:00pm with Lance Gilman, Storey County Commissioner, as the Grand Marshal, followed at 2:00pm by a technical large animal rescue demonstration and examples of wild horse gentling techniques. At 4:30pm, the nighttime musical extravaganza, hosted by Eddie Floyd and Wild Willy, kicks off with a Native American percussion demonstration and the Dayton Area Elementary School Choir followed by an evening of performances by Willis Lamm and the Mountain Outlaw Band, All Hat No Cattle, the Mountain Girls, Lacy J. Dalton and Dale Poune, and David John and the Comstock Cowboys.
The day’s activities, exclusive of the concert, are available for free to the public but donations will be gladly accepted. Concert tickets begin at $22 for general admission and can be obtained online at wildhorsefaire.com or at shareif.org or by calling the Silverland Inn & Suites at 775-847-4484.
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Virginia City - A Montana Ghost Town - near Nevada City, Montana MT
Virginia City - A Montana Ghost Town - near Nevada City, Montana
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In the 1940s, Charles and Sue Bovey began buying the town, putting much needed maintenance into failing structures. The ghost town of Virginia City began to be restored for tourism in the 1950s. Most of the city is now owned by the state government and is a National Historic Landmark operated as an open air museum.
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Sea of Blue A New song performed by Lacy J Dalton and Dale Poune. Pictures from appearances at the Iowa State fair, John Asuaga's Nugget, Sparks, NV, The Red Dog Saloon, Virginia City, NV, YMCA Hall, Cheyenne, WY, Don Quixote's in Felton, CA.
Slip Away
Slip Away A song From Lacy's 1st indie CD Last Wild Place performed by Lacy J Dalton and Dale Poune. Pictures from appearances at the Iowa State fair, John Asuaga's Nugget, Sparks, NV, The Red Dog Saloon, Virginia City, NV, YMCA Hall, Cheyenne, WY, Don Quixote's in Felton, CA. KCMY Radio Station Reno Nv