"In Devils Will Reign, historian Sally Zanjani recounts the momentous early history of the territory that became Nevada, weaving the colorful saga of its rowdy frontier settlements into the larger story of national political crises and economic ambitions, rapid development in California, and antipathy toward the polygamous Mormons. Here are intrepid frontiersmen; beleauguered Native Americans; zealous Mormons; colorful characters like the Grosh brothers, who were the first to recognize that the heavy black ore that interfered with gold mining in the Virginia Range was actually a remarkably rich deposit of silver; and farmers, including a group of African Americans who successfully settled in the Carson Valley.".
"Zanjani covers the lives of the pioneers, including women and their families, as well as the impact of the Comstock silver bonanza and the tenuous, halting efforts of the region's residents to create a territorial, then a state government."--BOOK JACKET.
