Friends with Sam from mining. Harvey saved Sam’s life. Harvey Beckwith, who is mentioned in the The Spanish Mine story was friends with Sam in early 1862 when they worked mines together. Harvey was the mine superintendent. Sam called him โa first-rate man in every way — steady, faithful, smart & particularly energetic…. God never […]
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Artemus Ward
Artemus Ward, often called the first standup comic, played a pivotal role in the history of American literature during an 1863 Christmas visit to the Nevada territory when he influenced the career of Mark Twain. Born Charles Farrar Brown in 1834 in Maine, the future Artemus Ward lost his father when young and became an […]
Samuel Post Davis
Samuel Post Davis was one of the most talented, versatile, popular, and politically active of the late nineteenth century group of Nevada writers known informally as the Sagebrush School.The son of an Episcopal priest, he was born on April 4, 1850, in Branford, Connecticut, and moved, as his father changed pulpits, to Newark, New Jersey, […]