Born in New York in 1832, Rollin Daggett moved to Ohio when he was five and eventually worked there as a printer. At seventeen, Daggett became a ’49er following the dream of California gold. Failing to become rich, he joined J. Macdonough Foard in 1852 to found The Golden Era. The famed San Francisco literary […]
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Adah Isaacs Menken
Petite – indeed, elfin–Lotta projected a winsome, appealing innocence and a girlish charm even in her mature years. Ada Isaacs Menken’s attraction, like that of Lola Montez, was explicitly erotic. The first years of her career playing romanic heroines-were undistinguished. In the early 1860s, however, she exploited the scandalous dissolution of her bigamous marriage to […]
The Millionaires Club – Washoe
The Old Washoe Club AKA The Millionaires Club {Washoe were an ancient local tribe. Northern Paiute Native Americans were living in the area near Humbolt Lake} The Washoe Club dates to the early 1860s. It was a two-bit bar, where a beer, a glass of whiskey, or a cigar cost twenty-five cents. Most saloons were […]