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.

Mr. Goodman and a journeyman printer arrive in Virginia City. They revive the moribund Territorial Enterprise and the flush times of the Nevada Territory shift into high gear, as exemplified by the sale(s) of the Sanitary Fund Flour Sack.

A review of how money was actually made in the Nevada silver mines.

Twain provides a nice description of the boom times in Virginia City, the days of the Comstock Lode. He is now a reporter on the staff of the Enterprise and enjoys a friendly rivalry with Boggs of the Union.

The young Mark Twain finally convinces a pilot, Mr Bixby, to take him on as a cub and learn him the river. He soon finds out that there is much more to the job than he's ever imagined, including working the night shift. However, the romance is returned full force when he finds himself on a full size New Orleans riverboat.