Gold had been struck earlier. ’59. He writes to Clagett that he’s pissed at the weather, bored, exhausted, happy about the Union starting to do better, but might want to leave for Denver. Sam is not quite ready to give up on the dream of quick and easy millions for a steady day job. August […]
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Sam tells Orion TE offered a job
Sam wrote to Orion to gush that he had accepted a job at the Territorial Enterprise. He took a few weeks before showing up. “A thunderstorm made Beranger a poet, a mother’s kiss made Benjamin West a painter and a salary of $15 a week makes us a journalist.” the first thing Sam Clemens wrote […]
Sam writes to William H. Clagett
Sam congratulates him on being elected representative; hopes he will be elected Senator when Nevada becomes a state; is angry with course of war and Union retreat and unhappy with talk of strategy that accomplishes nothing; discusses mutual friends and mining matters; disgusted with climate and may move to Colorado mines; encloses power of attorney. […]