35-xx-xx ep27Nevada and the Comstock Lode

Frontier fighters, fear fighters, thrilling drama enacted by those daring men who fought and conquered the West.

In 1849, Ethan and Josey Grosch, sons of a Pennsylvania preacher, came to California by sea from Philadelphia. They failed to make more than a bear living in the plazas, and for that reason, Grit did eastward across the Sierra's into the Washoe District and began to mine in Gold Canyon.

One day Josey called excitedly to his brother Ethan. Ethan, Ethan, come over here quickly. Don't lose a minute. Make a cycle, Cleo. Ethan. Ethan, look. Look at what. Don't you know what that metal is?

For sure, it's thin, sheet-led, broken up into fine pieces. Ethan, man, this is pure silver. Silver. Now let's turn some of it over. Look at the colors. Viatice, blue, indigo blue. All the colors associated with pure silver or even blue black and greenish black.

I wonder what this orb will ask me. might go as high as three thousand dollars to the town. If it's as pure as we think it is, we'd better stake out some more claims and get a couple of sacks over to the nearest Assayer's office. Looks like we've hit a 10 strike, alright?

The Assayer to whom they took the oars said it would show $3,500 to the town. The next steps the Gros brothers took to make themselves millionaires were attended by tragedy. The capitalist who was to put off the funds was murdered by Desparados.

A few days later, Jose Agrosh injured his foot with a pick. He died from blood poisoning. Ethan Grosh in an heroic attempt to get from John's town to Placerville, where funds might be more abundant, became lost in a blinding four-day snowstorm.