The Setting I began by asking, "What happened to San Francisco between the Gold Rush and the 1906 earthquake?". And discovered, to my amazement, that the answer was-- "The Comstock Lode". . CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA, 1860 - 1906 TIMELINES San Francisco Virginia City Nation Civil War ECONOMICS AND INDUSTRY Banks and Monetary Policy Lumber and Lumbering Mining and Explosives NATURAL WORLD Disasters - Earthquake, Fire, Tsunami Disasters - Storms, Sinkholes, Explosions, Flood, Drought, Epidemics Medicine Natural History SOCIETY * Art and Culture Food and Cuisine Funeral Customs Holiday Customs WOMEN’S RIGHTS Marriage and Divorce Women in the Law Women’s Suffrage PERSONAL * Clothing and Fashion * Cosmetics and Grooming Recreation Temperance Movement TECHNOLOGY Communications Lighting Technology, Commercial Technology, Domestic Transportation MISCELLANEOUS Architecture * Native Americans Vigilantes and Outlaws Weapons * Wit and Wisdom * = Coming soon.