“Ghost town, city of illusion, wind echoing in the yawning pit head of abandoned mines, wind shrieking among shadows that once were miners shacks, millionaires mansions, saloons, an opera house, a fine gingerbread hotel this is Virginia City ghost of the gutted Comstock lode the biggest bonanza in history.”

On the Cavalcade of America Dupont presents the story of the legendary Comstock and of Eilley Bowers the woman who played so great a part in its making.

Based on the book City of Illusions by: Vardis Fisher (1941)