The big bonanza
Subtitle: an authentic account of the discovery, history, and working of the world-renowned Comstock lode of Nevada, including the present condition of the various mines situated thereon, sketches of the most prominent men interested in them, incidents and adventures connected with mining, the Indians, and the country; amusing stories, experiences, anecdotes, etc., etc., and a full exposition of the production of pure silver
By: by Dan De Quille (William Wright) Introduction by Oscar Lewis.
Contributors: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Series: [Western Americana, planned in connection with California's centenary celebrations, 1946-50]; Western Americana
Publisher: A. A. Knopf
Published: 1947
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
Subjects: Comstock Lode (Nev.); Nevada -- Description and travel
Notes: "First Borzoi edition."

First edition, 1876, has title: History of the big bonanza.

Introduction includes hitherto unpublished letters of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.