Princes of the Fourth Estate Anyone who read the Territorial Enterprise of the early 1860s could have told you which of its two local reporters would go on to face and fortune. Mark Twain? No, Dan De Quille. The long lost Territorial Enterprise was one of the great newspapers on the frontier West. So brilliant […]
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Will Wright
Most who knew William Wright, a colleague of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) on Virginia City’s Territorial Enterprise, believed that of the two, Wright was the most likely to succeed. Instead, Twain went on to achieve immediate national and international fame while Wright, nineteenth-century Nevada’s most important literary figure, slipped into obscurity until recently. Wright was […]
W.H.C. Stephenson
Dr. W. H. C. Stephenson (1825–18??) was northern Nevada’s most prominent African-American citizen in the nineteenth century. One of Virginia City’s few African-American professionals, Stephenson served as the unofficial spokesperson for northern Nevada’s African-American community in the 1860s and was involved in numerous efforts to improve conditions for African-Americans in Nevada. Stephenson was born in […]