Nevada legislature convenes with Sam Clemens as clerk, 1 October – 29 November. Orion’s help for Sam was stenography. Boring. But befriends some important people like William H. Clagett – a lawyer in Virginia City who was a member of the Assembly. Orion knew him back when Clagett was studying law in Keouk, Iowa.
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Sam & Orion invests in Esmeralda mines
Early December, bored of the legislature, he’s enraptured with the newspaper coverage of the bonanza and wants in. Orion first, by letter, and not as crazily as Sam, begins investing, ~$600 for feet in six ledges that De Witt Harroun owned in the Santa Clara district of Humboldt County and an unknown amount for feet […]
The VC Union prints the angry letter from the Ladies
Four Carson City mucky mucks print a counter-attack on Sam, it is seconded by the Virginia City Union newspaper. Sam’s cohorts urged him to challenge the publisher of the Union. The husband of one of the offended women (a man running against Orion for Sec. State) showed up in Virginia City with reporters to fight […]