Bowers Mansion

Tamera J. Buzick is the Bowers Mansion curator. While teaching at Hug High School, she worked closely with Betty Hood, former Bowers Mansion curator, as the historical researcher and traveled extensively in search of new information about the Bowers family. She is a graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno.  Ronald M. James is a retired Nevada state historic preservation officer, a former member of the National Park System advisory board, and one-time National Historic Landmarks Committee chair. He authored The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode, among other books, and was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.  Michael A. "Bert" Bedeau is a member of the Nevada State Board of Museums and History and a retired district administrator for the Comstock Historic District Commission. He has authored National Register of Historic Places nominations and secured a National Historic Landmark designation for McKeen Motor Car #70. Bedeau is a founding board member of Preserve Nevada, former president of the Society for Commercial Archaeology (SCA), and co-editor of its SCA Journal.

“With ‘money to throw at the birds,’ Sandy and Eilley Bowers created a monument to early-day Nevada mining wealth and extravagance. Tamera Buzick, with assistance from Ronald James and Michael Bedeau, has produced the landmark’s definitive treatment.” - Michael J. Makley, author of Imposing Order without Law: American Expansion to the Eastern Sierra, 1850–1865 “This is an excellent compilation of the tale of Eilley Oram Bowers and her mansion.” - Robert Stewart, independent historian and editor of The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh

• Contents List of Illustrations Foreword by Ronald M. James Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Emigrating to America Chapter 2. Carson County Chapter 3. Life in a Mining Camp Chapter 4. The Comstock Lode Chapter 5. Comstock Millionaires Chapter 6. Bowers Mansion Resort Chapter 7. Seeress of Washoe Chapter 8. The Final Years Chapter 9. A Resort for a New Century Chapter 10. Restoration An Architectural History Michael A. "Bert" Bedeau A National Context Ronald M. James Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Authors