Keck Museum curator on John Mackay in Virginia City

MAR 25 2020

The University of Nevada, Reno's Keck Museum curator Garrett Barmore visits Virginia City with a descendant of John Mackay to discuss the miner who arrived on the Comstock in 1859 at four dollars a day and left it one of the richest men in America. Mackay's partnership with James Fair, James Flood and William O'Brien became the Bonanza firm whose silver founded the Nevada Bank of San Francisco. A university museum production.