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 ofpure 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]
Publisher: A. A. Knopf
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: 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Introduction includes hitherto unpublished letters of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.