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In 1859 the discovery of silver (the Comstock Lode in western Nevada) caused a Silver Rush in the reverse direction, with the mining being organized almost completely from California.
Lukas knew better about such pre-World War I hellholes as the Coeur d'Alenes district of Idaho; or Cripple Creek and Leadville in Colorado; or the Comstock mines of Nevada, as described by one Eliot Lord:
In its Court of Appeals brief, the Justice Department stipulated that the so-called Comstock provision in the law, which restricts the dissemination of information about abortion, was unconstitutional and would not be enforced.
It was still illegal under various 19 th -century "Comstock" laws to disseminate information about birth control in many states.
He began building this grandiose retreat in 1919 on a ranch that he had inherited from his father, who made his fortune mining Nevada’s Comstock Lode.