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 […]
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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 […]
Lotta Crabtree
Actor: Lotta CrabtreeThe Crabtrees moved again and set up another boarding house, this time to Rabbit Creek, forty miles north. Soon after, Lotta made her first professional appearance at a tavern owned by Matt Taylor. She began touring throughout California, and Nevada, making a name for herself as a dancer, singer, and banjo player in […]