The Virginia City Cemetery Metal Print

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The Silver Terrace Cemeteries are a series of terraces dramatically located on a steep, windswept hillside of Virginia City. As this boomtown became a more permanent settlement, there was a need for a cemetery. Beginning in the 1860s, a wide variety of fraternal, civic and religious groups established burial yards on the hillside.

From the Comstock Cemetery Foundation: The birth of the Comstock began in the year 1859 with discovery of gold by Pat McLaughlin and Peter O'Reilly. Henry (Pancake) Comstock, a fellow miner, believed that McLaughlin and O'Reilly's claim was on his property and was able to squeeze his way into the action and into history books when the giant ore strike was named after him - the Comstock Lode. During the early exploration mining, the miners encountered a blue-gray mud that stuck to their shovels and picks making digging difficult. This blue-gray mud turned out to be silver, called galena, and worth around $2000 per ton in 1859.

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Janis Knight has called Northern Nevada home for 50 years. During childhood, every summer was filled with trips to the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains where she fell in love with the beauty, wildness and open spaces of the Great Basin. While art came naturally, it was her first Nikon SLR in 1982 that really ignited the passion for photography. A background in drawing and painting helped her develop her style using elements of composition and light. She began displaying photos in the Tri-county fair in Northern Nevada, often winning best of show and superior ribbons, and her photos hung in businesses around town. Finally, in 2001, she was able to attend University of Nevada, Reno, where she studied black and white film photography...