Must have met up with Fitz-Hugh Ludlow from NYC- who wrote about the Washoe Giant and told Artemus Ward about him later
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Santa Cruz Sentinel describes VC
“the work is unhealthy, the ‘climate despicable, living enor- mously high, the whisky, like the citizens, nearly lightning, and the water at least forty degrees worse than the washings of an apothecary shop.
Sam’s rival writes to his boss
Clement T. Rice writes to James Warren Nye about mining news stories showing up in the Territorial Enterprise paper. Clement T. Rice is the Legislative reporter for the Virginia Daily Union newspaper.