Title: The gnomes of the dead rivers
Description: The Gnomes of the Dead Rivers is an allegory of wealth and happiness from the very special genre of literary journalism developed by classic Western writer Dan De Quille some twenty to thirty years after his association with Mark Twain on Nevada's famous Territorial Enterprise newspaper.

An introduction by Professor Lawrence I. Berkove, a scholar of nineteenth-century American literature, enhances this 110-year-old masterpiece of De Quillean moralism.
Subjects: Dan DeQuille, western Ameerican literature
Time periods: 1860s