In a storied journalism history that includes Mark Twain and Dan De Quille, national figures such as Hank Greenspun, and renowned newspapers like Virginia City’s Territorial Enterprise, the Valley Times has a place among Nevada’s most controversial and important newspapers. The publication began as a weekly, the North Las Vegas and Moapa Valley Times, on […]
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Sagebrush School
The main contribution to American literature from Nevada’s mining frontier, 1859 to 1914, was the writing of the Sagebrush School. It was a major contribution, more important than other, better-known regional movements. Like New England’s transcendentalism, the Sagebrush School was a loose, somewhat informal association of writers. In this case it refers to authors who […]
Samuel Post Davis
Samuel Post Davis was one of the most talented, versatile, popular, and politically active of the late nineteenth century group of Nevada writers known informally as the Sagebrush School.The son of an Episcopal priest, he was born on April 4, 1850, in Branford, Connecticut, and moved, as his father changed pulpits, to Newark, New Jersey, […]