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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 , a contemporary account of the Comstock Lode mines. Previously, however, in newspaper accounts De Quille had documented the development of the early Comstock. Donnelyn Curtis and Lawrence I. Berkove have gathered those accounts for the first time in Before The Big Bonanza .