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An Interview with Margaret Marks: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock

Margaret Louise Kelley Marks was born in Butte, Montana, on February 5, 1918. During her childhood she traveled with her family from mining camp to mining camp until they finally came to Virginia City, Nevada. She graduated from high school in Virginia City, and was a member of the last class to graduate from the Fourth Ward School. She then studied nursing in Montana and returned to Nevada to work at Saint Mary's Hospital in Reno. In the 1980s, Margaret assisted her husband in running the Crystal Bar in Virginia City. In her oral history, she recounts her family's history and the occupational background of her father and mother. Her mother, Mable Powers, was acquainted with such early Comstockers as Dan De Quille and Albert Michelson. These impressions, along with others of the early Comstock which were told to Margaret, are included in this oral history.

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