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Article: Vibrant Virginia City.
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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This Nevada ghost town is back from the dead with Silver Rush attractions in a historic mountain setting
* Virginia City is a dame with a past. She's been by turns rich and poor, rowdy and restrained, important and inconsequential. But like the feisty heroine of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, she never quite faded away. And now, primped and repainted by preservationists, Virginia City, Nevada, is ready for her comeback. Take an hour's drive south of Reno and you'll find this venerable mining town is more radiant than ever.
On this bright, windswept morning, the high-desert sunlight paints the boardwalk gold and slants beneath the low wooden balconies of C ...