Sam Clemens was born two months premature, thin and sickly. Haleyโs comet appeared the night he was born – a sign his mother took as an omen of good fortune.ย His father was humorless, a chronically bad businessman.ย His mother loved to dance, loved music and telling tall tales.ย His sister and brother died as […]
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Territorial Enterprise
The Territorial Enterprise newspaper arrived on the Comstock during the summer of 1860, and the first issue bearing a Virginia City dateline was in November of that same year. Unfortunately, no files of this edition survive. The newspaper files up to that time all perished in the great fire of 1875. After the fire, back […]
“Judge” C.C. Goodwin
Editor of the Washoe Times Judge Goodwin was also an editor of the Enterprise in the 1870s. Charles Carroll Goodwin was born on April 4, 1832 near Rochester, New York. In 1852, he travelled west and settled in Marysville, California where he operated a sawmill, taught school, and studied law with his brother Jesse. He […]