Washoe is generally known to be in a recession – up like a rocket, down like a stick. MTIVC pg 178
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Sam screws up at the paper – writes “How Is It?” attacking the Union paper
Sam is left in charge of the Enterprise in his editor’s absence and during a drinking spree published a facetious article saying that the rival paper, the Virginia City Daily Union was not meeting its pledges to the eastern miscegenation society that got it’s money from prominent Carson City women who had just thrown a […]
Sam’s “Miscegenation Society” letter draws a protest from Carson
Society women in Carson City put out an ad reprimanding Sam for his vulgarity and lies. the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise refuses to print the ad. this damaged Orion’s social standing and perhaps ruined his chances at political elevation