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Before the Big Bonanza: Dan de Quille's Early Comstock Accounts

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Before the Big Bonanza: Dan de Quille's Early Comstock Accounts - Curtis, Donnelyn (Editor), and Berkove, Lawrence I (Editor)
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The discovery and mining of the Comstock Lode in Nevada forever changed the mining culture of the American West. Using the pen name Dan De Quille, in 1876 William Wright published The Big Bonanza , the best-known contemporary account of the Comstock Lode mines. Previously, in nearly fifty newspaper accounts from 1860 to 1863, De Quille had documented the development of the early Comstock with a frankness, abundance of detail, sense of immediacy, and excitement largely absent from his book. Donnelyn Curtis and Lawrence I. ...

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Before the Big Bonanza: Dan de Quille's Early Comstock Accounts 2015, University of Missouri Press

ISBN-13: 9780826220387

Hardcover