Eilley, Queen of the Comstock

She struck the mother lode.
Built a mansion.
Lived like a queen.
Then she lost her children, her husband,
and the fortune she sought her whole life.

A limited series in twelve episodes

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Eilley in a dark high-necked dress, holding a paper headed “Mining Claim, Bowers”.
Concept art
A miner stands in a trench holding up a lump of silver ore while his partner kneels beside him and looks up at it.
Concept art

The series

Washing miners' shirts to survive, a Scot who left her homeland at fifteen marries for the third time, strikes the richest silver in America, and becomes the wealthiest woman in the West. Then she loses the children, her husband, and the fortune she sought her whole life.

About the series  ·  The real Eilley Orrum Bowers

Based on a screenplay created by Sari Lisa Armington. Written by Sari Lisa Armington and Michael Greene.

A young woman in a brown dress and grey-blue blouse works a pole in a washtub in a mining-camp yard.In the style of an old photograph: two bearded miners in hats and braces lean on their shovels in a mining-camp street.
Concept art

Women built the West too.
They just weren't allowed to keep it.

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