In his days in the Nevada Territory, Twainunderstood the lobbying process. In hisAutobiography, he describes how as a legislativecorrespondent for the Virginia City Enterprise, he was ableto help his brother, Orion: Orion was…very popular with the members of the legislature…He easily held the belt for honesty in that country but it didn’t do him any […]
George Hearst
Hearst ran a Quartz Mill in Virginia City that hired Sam. Writing about Virginia City, Nev., in 1863: โI secured a place in a nearby quartz mill to screen sand with a long-handled shovel. I hate a long-handled shovel. I never could learn to swing it properly. As often as any other way the sand […]
Jim Townsend
James William Emery (“Lying Jim”) Townsend (1838-1900) learned the printing trade in his home stand of new Hampshire and began his journalism career on the San Francisco Golden Era in 1859, working alongside Joseph Goodman, Bret Harte, and Denis McCarthy. He worked as a printer on the Territorial Enterprise from the fall of 1862 until […]