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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.
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.
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.
It was still illegal under various 19 th -century "Comstock" laws to disseminate information about birth control in many states.