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Letters from the Gold Rush reflect a hard life

RENO, Nev. — Brothers Hosea and Ethan Allen Grosh were jubilant after they discovered a “monster ledge” of silver in the parched mountains of present-day Nevada in the summer of 1857.

The sibling prospectors never prospered from the find, however. In fact, both went....

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