First printing (Number line). Tight, clean, flat, square, sharp and crisp book in lightly wrinkled dust jacket. Two owner's names on the FFEP is the biggest issue. 

One-hundred-year-old Jim Canfield was the living legend of Storey County. This first installment of his memoirs transports readers back to the 1860s, when the horrors of the Civil War and the fabulous bonanza silver mines of the Comstock Lode were on a collision course. Ruthless secessionists were anxious to fill the coffers of the Confederacy--at any cost.