Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1978. Frederic Hobbs. red cloth, DJ chipped, minor tears, 11" x 8.75", 173 pages. from the DJ flap, "The richest place on earth was, in the 1860s and 1870s, the Comstock Lode, a mountain of silver and gold near Virginia City, Nevada." DZ1. More