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Author: [Wright, William] De Quille, Dan, pseud.
Title: History of the Big Bonanza: An Authentic Account of the Discovery, History, and Working of the World Renowned Comstock Silver 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
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1947
Description:

Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Illustrated from engravings. Cloth, jacket.

Signed by Oscar Lewis on the front free endpaper Reprint of the 1876 first edition. Wright served as an editor on the renowned Territorial Enterprise from 1862 until its suspension in 1893. Paher notes that "he probably knew more about Virginia City society and its residents and mines than anyone else. He watched his town become the mining and cultural capital of the inland west in the early 1870's and stayed on to witness its decline after 1878" and goes on to call the work "the greatest of all Comstock books." (Howes W710; Paher 2220)

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Wear to jacket edges and extremities, 3" tear to lower right corner of front panel; Near fine in very good jacket.

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