Author: Quille, Dan de. The Big Bonanza. Title: The Big Bonanza. Edition: fifth printing, May 1959. Publication: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. from the front DJ flap, "In the spring of 1859 the miners of Nevada's Six Mile Canyon little realized that the odd looking black rock they were throwing away as worthless was almost a solid mass of silver.
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