A rival city to Virginia City emerges : Aurora In 1860, the discovery of gold and silver about eighty miles southeast of Virginia City led to the creation of the boomtown Aurora. E. R. Hicks, J. M. Corey, and James Braley made the find while on a hunting and prospecting expedition. On August 30, 1860, […]
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Palisade
Easterners bound for the Wild West on the Central Pacific Railroad in didnโt mind the empty stretches of desert scenery, since there was a good chance they might see a real-life shootout once they stopped at the infamous town of Palisade, Nevada.ย Big-city newspapers picked up the local papersโ horrifying stories of bloodshed in Palisade, […]
Territorial Enterprise
The Territorial Enterprise newspaper arrived on the Comstock during the summer of 1860, and the first issue bearing a Virginia City dateline was in November of that same year. Unfortunately, no files of this edition survive. The newspaper files up to that time all perished in the great fire of 1875. After the fire, back […]