Writers and artists in Virginia City were famous for being proto-counter-culture avant-guard experimenters in the art of newspapers and popular entertainment. Tall tales, lies, hoaxes and great writing was infused into the culture in Nevada. They took part in 5pm ‘green hour’ meetings at a bar called “The Sazerac” which had a dark parlor room […]
Characters
Virginia City
The series is narrated from the Virginia City newspaper office – in a town built at the crossroads of old and new, a locale defined by the daily influx of new people and money. Just east of Lake Tahoe, Virginia City was awash with cash created by the silver rush prospectors. It’s location between Salt […]
Ghost Towns
As prospectors dispersed from Austin, several of them discovered rich placer sands located in what is now Elko County. It was in 1867, shortly after the Civil War, and one of the miners called the place Tuscarora to honor a Union gunboat on which he had served. Area underground deposits attracted some attention, but surface […]
