A Gale – About 7 o’clock Tuesday evening…. “it is pleasant to reflect that they seized their carpet sacks and vacated the premises with an alacrity suited to the occasion.” the wind picked up shooting gallery, two lodging houses and a drug story and moved them 12 feet away. the the lodging houses were whore […]
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Orion gets Sam a job in Gov’t
covering it for the Enterprise and getting paid as a official capacity A.J. Marsh collaborated with Sam on political reporting of the legislature when in session. Marsh was a shorthand expert borrowed by the Territorial Enterprise from teh Sacramento Union. They turned out 1,000 words per day for the 32 day session. Sam actually buckled […]
Sam writes to William H. Clagett
Sam congratulates him on being elected representative; hopes he will be elected Senator when Nevada becomes a state; is angry with course of war and Union retreat and unhappy with talk of strategy that accomplishes nothing; discusses mutual friends and mining matters; disgusted with climate and may move to Colorado mines; encloses power of attorney. […]