BONANZA One Man with Courage Author:Thomas Thompson One man with courage reveals the Cartwrights in their full dimension and the Ponderosa in its true historical setting. Nevada, 100 years ago, rich with land, timber and silver. Rich also in men intozicated with greed and power. This is the famous story of the attempt by William Sharon and his Bank of California to gain a monopoly of the rich Com... more »stock mines and all the timber needed to feed those mines. Stocks were manipulated, forests uprooted and life threatened in this high-stakes drive for dominance. Here is the startling paradox of Ben Cartwright, a giant of a man, who with the aid of his sons, was able to help keep the Comstock alive while finding himself threatened by a monster of his own creation. Silver was the word of the day, but it was timber that made the mining of silver possible. And the Ponderosa represented the greatest stand of living timber in the world.« less