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An Interview with Edward Daniel Gladding: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock

Edward Daniel Gladding, a third generation Nevadan, was born in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1910. He attended the Fourth Ward School. In 1933 he became the postmaster of Virginia City. Mr. Gladding married Marion Andreasen, also a native Nevadan, in 1943. In this oral history, Mr. Gladding discusses his memories of his father, Edward Seth Gladding, who worked on the Comstock as a miner, and tells the reader about the daily life of a hard rock miner during the twentieth century. Mr. Gladding also recalls some of his own experiences as postmaster in Virginia City which provided him with a unique vantage point on the changes that occurred of the Comstock. Finally, Mr. Gladding reminisces about the campaign to save the wild horses, a movement that began in Storey County, and with which he was intimately involved.

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