The Territorial Enterprise and the Union Daily were rival papers. The Union was trying to be much more respectable and legit shilling for Republican politicians and was utterly unforgiving to the defeated Rebel cause. Conversely, the Enterprise wanted to be popular with miners, humorous, entertaining, it was much more agnostic when it came to politics. […]
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Joking Justified
Nov 15, 1863 — Sam wrote โLives of the Liars: Or Joking Justifiedโ In middle November, under “Still Harping,” Twain copied items of censure from Nevada and California papers and made “gruff remarks about ‘picayune papers.’ “Also, he bolstered his defense by compiling “Lives of the Liars or Joking Justified.” By quoting the results of […]
Artemus Ward
Artemus Ward, often called the first standup comic, played a pivotal role in the history of American literature during an 1863 Christmas visit to the Nevada territory when he influenced the career of Mark Twain. Born Charles Farrar Brown in 1834 in Maine, the future Artemus Ward lost his father when young and became an […]