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]
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 1959
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Introduction includes hitherto unpublished letters of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.