Collects several of Mark Twain's short stories, including 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog,' 'Political Economy,' and 'Extracts from Adam's Diary.'

Product Description: Tongue-Oil Timothy, as unflappable as he is unconscionable, swindles Wasatch Sam in a villainous poker game.  Amazed prospectors discover a full-grown silver man deep in a mountain tunnel.  Old Pizen, a horse so mean that he was almost poison to himself, is wagered by his own owner in the fight of his life.  ...read more

Product Description: Tongue-Oil Timothy, as unflappable as he is unconscionable, swindles Wasatch Sam in a villainous poker game.  Amazed prospectors discover a full-grown silver man deep in a mountain tunnel.  Old Pizen, a horse so mean that he was almost poison to himself, is wagered by his own owner in the fight of his life.  ...read more

Product Description: This two-volume work includes the Bye-the-Bye columns that were published in The Nevada Mining News in the years 1908-1909. This featured column was devoted to a series of historical memoirs primarily about the Comstock Lode of the 1860s to 1880s...read more

Product Description: The two plays in this collection, The Luck of Roaring Camp, by Bret Harte, and The Prince of Timbuctoo, by Sam Davis, were written by Old West authors as the nineteenth century transitioned into the twentieth. Both plays are original treatments of Americans in the Old World--France and Africa, respectively...read more

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'Sixty-eight selections representing writers who spent their creative years in Nevada from the 1860s to the early twentieth century and have become known as the Sagebrush School. Features Mark Twain, Dan De Quille, Sam Davis, Joe Goodman, and Rollin Daggett, and lesser-known writers Arthur McEwen, Fred Hart, and others'--Provided by publisher.