This chapter contains the famous story of the old ram.

Hints at the claustrophobia of being in such mines at such depths, particulalry the section on visiting the collapsed sections of the mine.

The literary journal arrives in Virginia with bad writing and even worse postry.

I did this story on a whim and to counter-balance The Man the Corrupted Hadleyburg. It is rather corny but fun and I suspect it is a bit of day dreaming on the part of Mark who was rather in the financial doldrums at the time of writing this.

Some newspaper reports on carnage and general mayhem in and about Virginia City.

Here's a link to a page regarding Captain Ned Wakeman. http://twainproject.blogspot.com/2009/09/making-connections-captain-ned…

This chapter provides us with a good example of the use of slang in regional dialects. My attempt at a dialogue between Scotty Briggs and the minister misses in a few spots but I think I've followed the conversation fairly closely.

Some anecdotes about the creation of the Nevada Nabobs, suddenly rich folk, and their adventures.