Historic Bread Riot in Virginia City

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  • W. M. Underhill University of Washington

Abstract

"The purpose of this paper is to show the sudden rise in the price of flour, the results that followed the exploitation of the miners by speculators and the sudden return to normal conditions as soon as the melting of the snows in the mountains opened the roads to the freight trains."

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Published

2010-01-08

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