Bonanza (1968); "Ponderosa Kill" by Dean Owen (1968); "The Pioneer Spirit" by Stephen Calder (1988); "The Ponderosa Empire" by Stephen Calder (1991); "Bonanza: The High Steel Hazard" by Stephen Calder (1993); "Journey of the Horse" by Stephen Calder (1993); "The Money Hole" by Stephen Calder (1993); "The Trail to Timberline" by Stephen Calder (1994); "Bonanza: Felling of the Sons" by Monette L. Bebow-Reinhard (2005), and "Bonanza: Mystic Fire" by Monette L. Bebow-Reinhard (2009). There is also a collection of Bonanza stories: "The Best of Bonanza World: A Book of Favorite Stories," published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2012). "Bonanza Gold" (2003–2009),
Bonanza Kings Bonanza Kings The Bonanza Kings, also called the Silver Kings, was a nickname given to the four men who started a stock brokerage called "Flood and O'Brien", more commonly known as the Bonanza Firm. Bonanza is a Spanish term, meaning a rich ore body; in 1873, after gaining control of the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company, they discovered a large vertical ore body more than 1,200 feet deep which became known as the "big bonanza". In 1871, Irish-Americans John William Mackay, James Graham Fair, James Clair Flood and William S. O'Brien, organized the Consolidated Virginia Silver Mine near Virginia City, Nevada,