California 49er and Nevada Mountainman He owned "Eagle Station, a trading post on a large ranch, including all of what is now called Eagle Valley, including Carson City, Nevada. Finally in 1858 he sold it for only $300 and a few mustangs to Abraham Curry, John J. Musser, Franklin Proctor, and Benjamin F. Green who purchased from him 865 acres. After he left, the four buyers soon begin laying out a community, which Proctor named Carson City, the capital of Nevada. Over the mountain the following year the Comstock Lode was discovered - a vein of silver seven miles long and half a mile wide, the largest silverstrike in the world!
John Brackin Mankins
Thrilling information contributed by descendant, Mrs. Carol Tucker now gives revealing information on Richard Tubman Mankin, Sr. and his descendants. Patricia Andersen, Walter Arps, Joyce Candland, and Betty deKeyser have all contributed to the research data related to the two sisters of the Dent family under TUBMAN MANKIN.
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