- Chapter XXXV appears at p. 259, not p. 261.
- Chapter LIII appers at p. 397, not p. 497.
By far the most common error was finding a comma or no punctuation at all at the end of a sentence: California[,/.] ([69.5]), understanding[.] ([71.12]), curiosity[.] ([73.37]), satisfactory[.] ([78.35]), runaways[,/.] ([79.8]), there[,/.] ([83.12]), out[,/.] ([84.9]), rascality[,/.] ([84.13]), here[,/.] ([84.35]), explanation[,/.] ([94.31]), white[.]) ([112.1]), neighborhood[,/.] ([167.12]), particles[./,] ([173.31]), shaft[./,] ([193.36]), towns[.] ([232.11]), “Often[.]” ([263.37]), walking[,/.] ([290.2]), side[.] ([303.9]), whoop[.] ([327.17]), charge[.] ([328.18]), venomous[.] ([355.39]), drink[.] ([366.17]), spirit[’/.] ([373.13]), dog[.] ([374.23]), effort[,/.] ([383.3]), blanket[.] ([391.16]), with it[.] ([393.29]), or two[,/.] ([398.23]), down[,/.] ([399.4]), Saratoga[,/.] ([417.35]), feet[,/.] ([427.16]), tunnel[,/.] ([430.33]), business[. ]([407.26]), were[.] ([474.8]), bank[,/.] ([476.21]), earnest[,/.] ([490.36]), bread[,/.] ([494.21]), up[.] ([517.9]), vein[,/.] ([530.8]), adversity[,/.] ([567.14]), merely[,/,] ([567.26]), extracted[,/.] ([569.8]), mine[,/.] ([569.10]), windlass[.] ([569.11]), blast[.] ([568.4]), poles[.] ([568.6]), inches[.] ([569.5]).
The (many) other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. Where the error occurs in a quoted document, it is merely noted.
| [viii.21] | First Qua[r]tz Mine in Nevada | Inserted. |
| [viii.22] | Qua[r]tz Mill—Amalgamating Room | Inserted. |
| [viii.26] | “The Heathe[n] Chinee” | Restored. |
| [ix.23] | THE DISCOVERY[ OF] SILVER. | Inserted. |
| [ix.34] | An U[u/n]pleasant Joke | Inverted. |
| [x.30] | Old Gus[./,] and his “Injun.” | Replaced. |
| [x.39] | [w/W]aste of Gold and Silver | Uppercase. |
| [xi.26] | Peril[l]ous Ways and Dark Places | Removed. |
| [xii.19] | A little Pict[n/u]re | Inverted. |
| [xii.22] | RA[I]LROAD LINES. | Inserted. |
| [xv.36] | “Fighting Interests.[”] | Added. |
| [xvi.5] | C[A/H]APTER LXIV. | Replaced. |
| [xvi.14] | [G/C]HAPTER LXVI. | Replaced. |
| [xvi.41] | Doubtf[n/u]l Dreams | Inverted. |
| [20.19] | he said[./,] “Yonder lies | Replaced. |
| [35.6] | “dead thing,[’/”] | Restored. |
| [38.36] | formed of [lodestone] or magnetic iron ore. | sic |
| [46.15] | yielded millions upon mil[l]ions in gold | Inserted. |
| [51.1] | made by O[ /’]Riley and McLaughlin | Replaced. |
| [53.8] | sold his interest in the Central No. 1[.] for $4,000 | Removed. |
| [56.22] | “Old Pancake[”] was happy | Added. |
| [56.25] | no sooner was it in his posses | Inserted. |
| [59.31] | ‘I baptize this ground Virginia.[’] | Added. |
| [60.2] | living on the Trucke[r/e] Meadows | Replaced. |
| [63.9] | including of[ of] its depths | Removed. |
| [72.8] | he could no longer rest[r]ain himself | Inserted. |
| [72.17] | and then tossed Ruspas[,/’ ]ear over to the jury | Replaced. |
| [72.38] | this day,[’/ ]I have bargained and sold | Replaced. |
| [73.5] | all my right[./,] title, and interest | Replaced. |
| [74.14] | with the [appurtences] | sic |
| [88.15] | the head with a pistol.[”] | Added. |
| [90.19] | as I lay thar lookin’ up[’] at the sky | Removed. |
| [93.7] | “[’]Well, to’ards night | Removed. |
| [94.12] | watchin[,’/’], between mouthfuls, | Transposed. |
| [94.17] | that dam fisher skin now![”/’] | Replaced. |
| [94.18] | I could[’n/n’]t do full justice | Transposed. |
| [94.24] | by all that’s stinkin’ and nasty![”/’] | Replaced. |
| [94.35] | [“]Peter O’Riley, in the early days, | Removed. |
| [94.26] | I need[’n/n’]t mention what follered. | Transposed. |
| [95.12] | she expressed u[u/n]bounded love | Inverted. |
| [96.16] | having been caref[n/u]lly studied | Inverted. |
| [100.3] | Mrs[.] L. S. Bowers | Added. |
| [104.5] | congenial hills[,] flats, and gulches | Added. |
| [107.23] | all the new[ ]comers | Removed. |
| [112.20] | be seen to as | Inserted. |
| [131.27] | stopping at Van Sickle[’s/s’] Station | Transposed. |
| [144.24] | these accidental collisons | Inserted. |
| [156.37] | all manner of w[ie/ei]rd imaginings | Transposed. |
| [160.19] | a volcanic rock of[ of] much more recent | Removed. |
| [160.20] | ([s/S]yenite is much the same as granite | Uppercase. |
| [163.1] | the peculiar | Added. |
| [168.1] | Mr[.] Frank thought it all over. | Added. |
| [173.33] | of a corpse-like pal[l]or. | Inserted. |
| [177.5] | with vertic[le/al] winzes | Replaced. |
| [177.12] | They have not been[,] many, but they have been | Removed. |
| [181.23] | lying in all kinds of d[i/e]spairing positions | Replaced. |
| [182.2] | covered with planks[,] wet blankets, and earth. | Added. |
| [168.7] | Mr[.] Frank also was quite cheerful | Added. |
| [209.8] | The cage was prom[p]tly lowered again | Inserted. |
| [218.39] | It is a well[ known]-known scientific fact | Removed. |
| [222.1] | more substantial st[r]uctures | Inserted. |
| [249.22] | another corner of the beleagu[e]red block | Inserted. |
| [251.34] | from the vigilantes.[”] | Removed. |
| [267.18] | What have you in your packs[!/?] | Replaced. |
| [272.12] | took Captain Trucke[r/e] into his service | Replaced. |
| [273.16] | She say, [‘]Juan you got-a some money?’ | Added. |
| [273.22] | for your Spanish wife?[”] | Added. |
| [273.27] | She no all time want [‘]money, money.’ | Added. |
| [273.32] | [“]Why, John, you surprise me. | Added. |
| [273.33] | How many shirts has she got—twenty?[”] | Added. |
| [291.8] | a natural born philanthrop[h]ist | Removed |
| [291.9] | he could amelorate the condition | Inserted. |
| [292.4] | continually to i[n/m]prove and benefit | Replace. |
| [300.8] | villain on don[n]ing blue woollen pantaloons | Inserted. |
| [307.6] | 1[./,]500 feet below the surface | Replaced. |
| [313.25] | s[t/l]oping out in the bonanza. | Replaced. |
| [347.34] | into the dist[r]ibuting tanks | Inserted. |
| [351.35] | their value in silver and gold[,/.] | Replaced. |
| [352.27] | which was dis | Inserted. |
| [323.21] | 3 o’clock P. M[.] | Added. |
| [372.38] | become ver[’] moche interest | Added. |
| [373.30] | [“]What was the use of William Tell | Added. |
| [375.4] | and feelin[’] prouder’n | Added. |
| [376.24] | I’ll manage it all for you.[”] | Added. |
| [376.28] | I don[’]t know much about | Inserted. |
| [376.9] | of such service.[”] | Added. |
| [376.13] | “Of course it[’]s a considerable sum | Inserted. |
| [378.15] | on the other the but[t] of a navy revolver | Added. |
| [385.6] | were torn to p[ei/ie]ces | Transposed. |
| [385.8] | in a room [a/o]ccupied by General | Replaced. |
| [385.36] | [“]Now all people, everyone | Added. |
| [385.37] | two yard-ee long, hap (half) yard-ee[ ]wide | Inserted. |
| [386.13] | [“]One dead Chinaman | Added. |
| [386.20] | [“]Chinaman no likee | Added. |
| [386.26] | [“]One ’Melican man | Added. |
| [386.33] | you bet.[’] | Removed. |
| [387.4] | [“]Dead Chinaman all the same | Added. |
| [388.10] | wire probes, and[ and] other smoking-apparatus. | Removed. |
| [392.32] | The man with the elect[r]ical-machine | Inserted. |
| [400.22] | Should there be a furth[u/e]r | Replaced. |
| [401.30] | [“]Zee mine be one merveille | Added. |
| [401.42] | [“]Capital | Removed. |
| [404.18] | afore in the[”]— | Inserted. |
| [411.35] | and the Hornbeck[’]s and Doolittles | Removed. |
| [415.20] | one of the most beatiful little lakes | Inserted. |
| [415.27] | also of a rather unsual style | Inserted. |
| [416.3] | “Yank’s[”] and all of the other stations | Added. |
| [424.16] | they excited universal s[y]mpathy | Inserted. |
| [429.14] | [“]One of the men | Added. |
| [430.2] | the miner was punc[ut/tu]ally at hand | Transposed. |
| [437.7] | she is older tha[t/n] the egg | Added. |
| [437.31] | the bully Honest [m/M]iner | Uppercase. |
| [452.23] | [“]Yes, some ozzaire time | Added. |
| [452.37] | [“]how ver’ beautiful is zee cool air | Added. |
| [462.32] | in any other business.[”] | Added. |
| [466.33] | in the great fiss | Removed. |
| [471.9] | depth of three [a/o]r four hundred feet | Replaced. |
| [471.29] | in[ in] fact. | Removed. |
| [487.] | fro[n/m] one hundred and fifty | Replaced. |
| [488.10] | or $3[4/6],000,000 per year | Replaced. |
| [489.4] | Sub | Removed. |
| [491.1] | By refer[r]ing to the map | Inserted. |
| [499.12] | southeasterly direction from Virgina City | Inserted. |
| [503.27] | all uncon | Inserted. |
| [503.36] | Pharaoh’s serpents[.] | Added. |
| [504.37] | eased by cutt[t]ng away behind them | Removed. |
| [505.38] | were then produced [l/i]n order to | Replaced. |
| [506.4] | Virginia and Trucke[r/e] Railroad | Replaced. |
| [518.35] | owned by the f[l/i]rm | Replaced. |
| [525.14] | reached California, in August, 18[3/5]0 | Replaced. |
| [538.15] | flip a [f/s]lapjack into the air | Replaced. |
| [539.11] | to throw a slap[-]jack up through | Removed. |
| [540.11] | they christened the “Granite Polka.[”] | Added. |
| [546.31] | Pike’s friend | Added. |
| [548.9] | try to raise a stake.[’]” | Inserted. |
| [548.13] | [“]It came from old Missouri | Removed. |
| [554.10] | “Give us the dream![”] Let’s have | Removed. |
| [554.27] | I mean I tho[n/]ught I heard ’em | Inverted. |
| [560.5] | when the[r/s]e were fired | Replaced. |
| [560.36] | Soon Piper[’]s Opera House | Inserted. |
| [560.38] | while to the right [the/and] southward | Probable. |
| [564.18] | California St[e/r]eet | Replaced. |
| [564.28] | sold on California St[e/r]eet | Replaced. |
| [562.5] | people for a time seemed stup[i/e]fied | Replaced. |
| [568.43] | [a/A] stony place[.]’ | Uppercase./Added. |
| [568.44] | A ro[e/c]k[.] | Replaced./Added. |