Julia Bulette Prostitute Julia Bulette moved to Virginia City around 1863 when the lively mining boom town boasted a population approaching 10,000. Four years later, an intruder strangled her during the early morning hours of January 20, 1867. Local officials arrested Frenchman Jean Millian when he tried to sell a few of her possessions. Found […]
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Jeff Hayes
Telegraph Operator in Virginia City.ย John Uriel Hayes just wasn’t cut out for the priesthood.ย ย He knew that. His mother and religious mentors did not. “He kept running away from home,” saysย Juanita Swinehart of Vancouver, his granddaughter. “And every time the priest would go after him and bring him back again.” About age 14 […]
Israel Friedman
Israel Friedman was a Lithuanian Jew who was one of the members of the Yiddish Theatre of New York City.ย Israel traveled with Edwin Forrest on his 1866 tour to California.ย Lithuanian Jew member of Yiddish Theatre of NYC, traveled with Edwin Forrest on his 1866 tour to California. Forrest was paid $10,000 by Theatre […]