A picturesque mountain setting and a core full of 19th-century structures from its Comstock Lode glory days draw tourists to Virginia City, Nevada’s most famous mining boomtown.

The boomtown Virginia City has maintained its 19th Century charm and its ties to Mark Twain.

VIRGINIA CITY -- More than 150 years after the discovery of one of the world's richest silver veins touched off a mining frenzy that drew thousands of people west and made Virginia City a wealthy b ...

VIRGINIA CITY, Nev. - One hundred fifty years ago, one of the most momentous events in American literature occurred in this unlikely silver-mining boomtown, once known as "the richest city in the ...

The discovery of first gold and then silver led to the birth of Virginia City and that led to statehood for Nevada. It all started back in the mid-1850s when James Fenemore, better known as "Old ...

Step back in time walking the wood-plank sidewalks of this Nevada town packed with the amazing history of more than 150 years. Virginia City takes visitors back to the days of the Wild West, gunfights ...

Virginia City's Historic C Street and the surrounding blocks "resemble a Western boomtown from the 1870s," USA Today's ranking noted about the Nevada main street.

Once the fourth largest town in Nevada, Rhyolite exploded into existence with gold rush fever—only to collapse just as fast. With three railroads, electric lights, a $130,000 train depot, and even an ...

Nevada Democrats are issuing condemnations after a video emerged over the weekend showing a confrontation at Hot August Nights in Virginia City.

In September, Carson City author Stephen H. Provost published two books exploring “one of the West’s most fascinating frontier regions,” according to a news release. “Virginia City Then & Now” ...