Letters From White Pine (Series 1 of 3)

            Rich Mines in Eastern Nevada, Reese River Reveille article reprinted in the Sacramento Union, November 20, 1867

            Matters at Reese River, Reese River Reveille article, reprinted in the Sacramento Union August 1, 1868

            Letter from Nevada, Sacramento Union, August 8, 1868

            Desperadoes at White Pine, Sacramento Union, September 2, 1868

            Letter from White Pine, Nev., Sacramento Union, October 17, 1868

            Albert S. Evans, Over the Mountains, Alta California, November 12, 1868

            Albert S. Evans, Trip to White Pine, Alta California, November 19, 1868

            Albert S. Evans, Trip to the White Pine Silver Mines, Alta California, November 25, 1868

            Albert S. Evans, White Pine, Alta California, November 26, 1868

            A White Pine Millionaire Moved, Territorial Enterprise article, reprinted in the Alta California, November 27, 1868

            James Hitchens, Letter from White Pine, Grass Valley Union article reprinted in the Sacramento Union, December 2, 1868

            "Singleline" (Dr. J. W. Gally), White Pine, Territorial Enterprise article, reprinted in Alta California, December 8, 1868

            Joseph Tyson, White Pine, Alta California, December 25, 1868

            "Keep At It," Letter from White Pine, Sacramento Union, January 5, 1869

            Joseph Tyson, White Pine Projects, Alta California, January 6, 1869

            "D.," Letter from White Pine, Sacramento Union, January 7, 1869

            J. R. P., Letter from White Pine, Alta California, January 10, 1869

            John White, A Warning Voice From White Pine, Territorial Enterprise article reprinted in the Sacramento Union, January 12, 1869

            W. W. Bishop, Latest from White Pine, Territorial Enterprise article reprinted in the Alta California, January 19, 1869

            Joseph Tyson, White Pine, Alta California, January 21, 1869

            "X.," Letter from White Pine, Alta California, February 2, 1869

            "Manhattan," White Pine Notes, Alta California, February 6, 1869

            Albert S. Evans, White Pine, Alta California, February 8, 1869

            George S. Evans, White Pine Weather, Alta California, February 9, 1869

            "X.," Letter from White Pine, Alta California, February 12, 1869

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Nevada Literature:

Dan De Quille, Moosic [from the Alta California, August 17, 1877]

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Dan De Quille, Nevada Ideas of Divorce: How the "Mountain" Came to O'Hoolahan, Salt Lake Tribune, October 5, 1891]

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Mark Twain, Early Days in Nevada [Buffalo Express article, reprinted in the Alta California, January 17, 1870]

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Mark Twain, The Facts in the Great Land-Slide Case, Alta California, April 11, 1870]

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Seasonal Reading:

Nevada Ghost Stories

Rollin M. Daggett, Luke Reynold's Ghost [San Francisco Call, December 25, 1895]

Sam Davis, The Hermit of Treasure Peaks [from The Californian, April 1880]

Sam P. Davis, Mark Haverly [from Short Stories (1886)]

Sam Davis, Converting a Skeptic [San Francisco Call, December 25, 1895]

Sara Dean, How Wilson's Claim Was Jumped [from Sunset, February 1907]

Dan De Quille, One of the Lost [from the New York Sun September 20, 1885]

Dan De Quille, Spooks of the High Trails [from the San Francisco Call, December 23, 1894]

Dan De Quille, The Black Dog of the Bend [from the San Francisco Call, 19 May 1895]

M. Floyd, A Phantom of the High Sierra [from The Overland Monthly, April 1893]

James W. Gally, Ghosted [from The Overland Monthly, August 1886]

Martinetta Kinsell, The Moonwitch, A Legend of Lake Tahoe [from The Overland Monthly, May 1903]

A. H. Martin, The Valley of Bubbling Earth: A Legend of Coso Springs [from The Overland Monthly, April 1911]

J. H. Mathewson, The Strangling Arm [San Francisco Call, December 25, 1895]

Nonette V. McGlashan, The Legend of Lake Tahoe [from Sunset, August 1905]

Richard L. Rinckwitz, The Circe of Lahontan Basin: A Story of Nevada's Desert [from The Overland Monthly, July 1908]

Edward P. Payne, Spectres on the Overland Trail [from The Overland Monthly, December 1889]

Oliver Roberts, The Shrinking Rope [San Francisco Call, December 25, 1895]

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Nevada History:

Across Nevada on a Secret Mission

Details of a Journey to Salt Lake, and Return Trip [from the Alta California, August 12, 1858]

Travel on the Overland Stage in 1858

W. A. Wallace, Letter from Our Overland Correspondent – Mr. Wallace [from the Alta California (1858)] Part 1; Part 2

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From Ruby Valley

S., Letter from Utah Territory [from the Sacramento Union, March 9, 1859]

S. W., Our Letter from Ruby Valley [from the Alta California, April 1, 1863]

W. S., Our Letter from Ruby Valley, N. T. [from the Alta California, April 5, 1863]

"Togwash," Letter from Fort Ruby [from the Sacramento Union, May 22, 1863]

Matters at Fort Ruby [from the San Francisco Bulletin, republished in the Sacramento Union, June 8, 1863]

C., Letter from Fort Ruby [from the Sacramento Union, July 4, 1863]

U. S., Our Letter from Ruby Valley, N. T. [from the Alta California, July 10, 1863]

Letter from Fort Ruby [from the Sacramento Union, July 18, 1863]

W., Our Letter from Ruby Valley [from the Alta California, July 25, 1863]

L., Letter from Fort Ruby [from the Sacramento Union, August 13, 1863]

"Uncle Sam," Our Letter from Ruby Valley [from the Alta California, September 15, 1863]

S., Our Letter from Fort Ruby, N. T. [from the Alta California, September 30, 1863]

W., Our Letter from Ruby Valley, N. T. [from the Alta California, October 26, 1863]

J. W. Brown, Notes on Ruby Valley and Vicinity [from the Alta California, August 3, 1864]

"Ruby," Letter from the State of Nevada [from the Alta California, June 22, 1865]

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Nevada Literature:

Dan De Quille, The Story of a Lost Child [from the Salt Lake Tribune, January 17, 1892]

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Dan De Quille, Little Tum Tum of Barton's Bar [from the San Francisco Call, October 6, 1895]

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"Winkle," A Cruise on a Mountain Sea [from the Sacramento Union (1866)] Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4

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Nevada History:

1858: From Placerville to Salt Lake on the First Overland Stagecoach

E. Dyer, Letter from Salt Lake City [from the Alta California, September 16, 1858]

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The Early Mines of Nye

Letter from Nevada Territory [from the Sacramento Union, October 20, 1864]

Letter from Nevada Territory [from the Sacramento Union, October 22, 1864]

Letter from Nevada [from the Sacramento Union, August 22, 1865]

Letter from Nye County, Nevada [from the Sacramento Union, September 8, 1865]

Letter from Nye County, Nev. [from the Sacramento Union, September 12, 1865]

Letter from Nye County (Nev.) [from the Sacramento Union, September 30, 1865]

Letter from Nevada [from the Sacramento Union, October 12, 1865]

A. H., Letter from Nye County, Nevada [from the Sacramento Union, February 5, 1866]

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About Those Flash Flood Warnings

Albert S. Evans, A Cloud-Burst on the Desert [fromThe Overland Monthly, August 1869]

J. W. Gally, Dr. Gally on Cloudbursts [from the Pacific Rural Press, September 24, 1887]

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Nevada Literature:

Dan De Quille, The Green Dragon of the Plains [from The New York Sun, February 20, 1887]

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Dan De Quille, Land of the Quetzal [from the Salt Lake Tribune, December 28, 1890]

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Idah Meacham Strobridge, An Old Squaw [from The Loom of the Desert (1907)]

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Nevada History:

David Thompson (comp.), Indian Agency Reports pertaining to Nevada, 1850-51; 1852; 1853; [no local report made for 1854]; 1855; 1856; 1857; [no local report made for 1858]; 1859; 1861; 1862; 1863; 1864; 1865; 1866; 1867; 1868 [From the Annual Reports of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs]

Related Reading

David Thompson (comp.), Letters from Nevada Indian Agents 1849-1861 (1981): 1849; 1850; 1851; 1852; 1853; 1854; 1855; 1856; 1857; 1858; 1859; 1860; 1861

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Meeting Hank Monk

"Traviata," A Chapter on Stage Travelling and Stage Drivers [from the Alta California, November 18, 1864]

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The Dark Side Of Indian Warfare

The Trial and Sentence of Captain Hill, Sixth Infantry, C. V. [from the Sacramento Union, November 13, 1865]

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Criminal Bands

The Fate of a Gang of California Ruffians [from the Alta California, April 15, 1871]

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Touring Nevada By Automobile, 1919

Beatrice Larned Massey, The Nevada Desert [from It might have been worse; a motor trip from coast to coast (1920)]

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Nevada Literature:

Dan De Quille, Piute Astronomy [from the Salt Lake Tribune, October 18, 1885]

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Dan De Quille, The "Old Prospector" [from the Salt Lake Tribune, December 27, 1885]

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Edward P. Payne, Spectres on the Overland Trail [from The Overland Monthly, December 1889]

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Idah Meacham Strobridge, Mesquite [from The Loom of the Desert (1907)]

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Idah Meacham Strobridge, The Revolt of Martha Scott [from The Loom of the Desert (1907)]

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Philip Verrill Mighels, For Sale: A Warrior [from Adventures With Indians (1908)]

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Nevada History:

A Honey Lake Pioneer's Narrow Escape

William Naileigh, An Indian Attack on the Plains [from the Sacramento Transcript, February 1, 1851]

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Trailblazers of the Central Route

E. L. Barnard, Letter [from the Deseret News, April 30, 1853]

Jackson Redding, Letter [from the Deseret News, December 1, 1853]

O. B. and C. A. Huntington, New Route [from the Deseret News, December 7, 1854]

News from the Short Route [from the Deseret News, June 20, 1855]

Howard Egan, The Central Route to California [from (ed.) William M. Egan, Pioneering the West 1846 to 1878 (1917)]

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From the Mines of El Dorado Cañon

F. S. A., Our Letter from Arizona Territory [from the Alta California, April 25, 1865]

F. S. A., Letter from Arizona Territory, Alta California, May 28, 1865]

From Arizona [from the Alta California, October 23, 1865]

Alling, Our Arizona Correspondence [from the Alta California, May 28, 1866]

Related Reading

J. H. R., Diary of Explorations in Search of the Colorado Mines [from the Daily Alta California, July 17-August 2, 1862] Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4

L. P. W., Letter from the New Colorado Mines [from the Daily Alta California, January 16, 1863]

L. P. W., Letter from the New Colorado Mines [from the Daily Alta California, January 28, 1863]

P. W. S., Letter from the Colorado Mines [Alta California, February 10, 1863]

Knight, Letter from the Colorado Mines [Alta California, April 14, 1863]

J. M. M., Letter from El Dorado Canyon Arizona [from the Alta California, October 9, 1863]

J. B. Winters, Letter from the Colorado Mines [from the Alta California, December 19, 1863]

M., Our Letter from the Colorado River Mines [from the Alta California, April 6, 1864]

J. S. L., Our Letter from the Colorado River Mines [from the Alta California, May 10, 1864]

Mignedowa, Letter from El Dorado Cañon [from the Alta California, June 6, 1864]

J. M. Williams, Notes on the Mining Interests of Arizona [from the Alta California, August 2, 1864]

El Dorado Cañon and its Resources [from the Alta California, November 29, 1864]

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Nevada Literature:

Dan De Quille, Growler and Jowler [from the Virginia City Enterprise, reprinted in the Daily Alta California, January 31, 1880]

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Dan De Quille, The Scholarly Tramp [from the New York Sun, June 21, 1885]

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Dan De Quille, The Musical Coffin [from the Salt Lake Tribune, April 4, 1886]

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Nevada History:

Panning for Gold on the Truckee, 1849

"A Pioneer Gold Humbug Victim," Origin of the Gold Lake Illusion [from the Alta California, March 10, 1860]

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Early Days in Southern Nevada

Ira Hatch (as told by to James A. Little), Mission to the Muddy in 1858 [from the Deseret News, June 8, 1870]

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Early Days on the Comstock

The Grosch Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Company, The Grosch Brothers in Washoe [from the Sacramento Union, August 17, 1863]

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Gouging It Out

The Blunders in Washoe Mining [from the Alta California, October 24, 1865]

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The Death of Julia Bulette

Brutal Murder of a Woman [Territorial Enterprise clip, reprinted in the Alta California, January 26, 1867]

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Thomas Fitch, Recollections and Reflections [serialized in 27 issues of the Sunday San Francisco Call, 1903-1904] Part 1 (The Silver State); Part 2 (The Bonanza Kings Who Put a Girdle of Gold Around the World); Part 3 (Some Old Friends); Part 4 (Frontier Litigation); Part 5 (Stumping in California); Part 6 (The Golden Gate); Part 7 (The Civil War); Part 8 (Legislative Reminiscences); Part 9 (Washington Reminiscences); Part 10 (The Sun-Kissed Land); Part 11 (The Sun-Kissed Land No. 2); Part 12 (Sagebrush Sketches); Part 13 (Cactus Jurisprudence); Part 14 (Christmas); Part 15 (Clever Crooks); Part 16; Part 17; Part 18; Part 19 (Among the Players); Part 20 (Tara Boom De A); Part 21 (Stampeding a Convention); Part 22 (My War With Japan); Part 23 (Theodore Roosevelt); Part 24 (Territories and Chinese); Part 25 (Hawaii); Part 26 (Abraham Lincoln); Part 27 (John C. Frémont)

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Nevada Literature:

Mark Twain, The Judge's 'Spirited Woman' [from The Galaxy Magazine, June 1870]

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Albert S. Evans, A Waif of the Pogonip [from The Overland Monthly, June 1871]

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Mark Twain, The Genuine Mexican Plug [from Roughing It (1872)]

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Dan De Quille, A Red Hair [from the Salt Lake Tribune, April 18, 1886]

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Henry S. Brooks, The Metallurgist [from The Overland Monthly, February 1890]

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Dan De Quille, The Big Nevada Nugget [from the Salt Lake Tribune, January 1, 1891]

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Dan De Quille, Spooks of the High Trails [from the San Francisco Call, December 23, 1894]

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John S. Draper ("Uncle Ben Morgan"), Two Nights in Nevada [from Shams; or, Uncle Ben's experience with hypocrites (1899)]

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Nevada History:

New-Found "Tennessee" Letters

"Tennessee" (Richard N. Allen), Letter from Genoa [from the Alta California, March 14, 1860]

"Tennessee" (Richard N. Allen) Our Genoa Correspondence [from the Alta California, April 11, 1861]

"Tennessee" (Richard N. Allen), Our Genoa Correspondence [from the Alta California, May 13, 1861]

"Tennessee" (Richard N. Allen), Letter from Genoa [from the Alta California, June 7, 1861]

"Tennessee" (Richard N. Allen), Letter from Genoa [from the Alta California, June 17, 1861]

"Tennessee" (Richard N. Allen), The Shooting of Sam Brown [from the Sacramento Union, July 11, 1861]

Related Reading

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Nevada Journalism

Jared B. Graham, The First Silver Boom, from Handset Reminiscences: Recollections of an Old-Time Printer and Journalist (1915)]

Jared B. Graham, The Inspired Liar, from Handset Reminiscences: Recollections of an Old-Time Printer and Journalist (1915)]

James W. E. Townsend, Pioneer Journalism in California, San Francisco Call, December 25, 1895]

Sam Davis, Political Revolution in Nevada, San Francisco Call, November 3, 1895]

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Nevada Literature:

Dan De Quille, Lost in the Sierras: The Gold Hunter's Fate [from the Alta California, October 2, 1877]

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Major Ben C. Truman, Divorced on the Desert [from Occidental Sketches (1881)]

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Dan DeQuille, An American Miner in Mexico [from The Overland Monthly, January and February 1890] Part 1; Part 2

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M. Floyd, A Phantom of the High Sierra [from The Overland Monthly, April 1893]

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Dan De Quille, Ben Kent of Kern [from the San Francisco Call, 25 November 1894]

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Nevada History:

Prospecting Nevada in 1850

Robert Wilson, Mr. Wilson's Correspondence [from the Alta California, September 29-October 20, 1850]

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The Mines of Eldorado Cañon

J. M. M., Letter from El Dorado Canyon Arizona [from the Alta California, October 9, 1863]

J. B. Winters, Letter from the Colorado Mines [from the Alta California, December 19, 1863]

M., Our Letter from the Colorado River Mines [from the Alta California, April 6, 1864]

J. S. L., Our Letter from the Colorado River Mines [from the Alta California, May 10, 1864]

Mignedowa, Letter from El Dorado Cañon [from the Alta California, June 6, 1864]

J. M. Williams, Notes on the Mining Interests of Arizona [from the Alta California, August 2, 1864]

El Dorado Cañon and its Resources [from the Alta California, November 29, 1864]

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Curtis J. Hillyer, The Winning of Nevada for Woman Suffrage (1916 reprint of 1869 speech to the Nevada Legislature)

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Nevada Literature:

Anonymous, Geological Reminiscences: Senator Jones Tells How the Wolves of the Mining Lodes Played Rough Games [from the San Francisco Call, October 27, 1895]

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C. W. Crocker, Bill Watson's Ride [from the Alta California, December 25, 1872]

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Sam Davis (?), The Darwinian Devil [from the San Francisco Call, December 2, 1895]

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Charles Carroll Goodwin, Sister Celeste [from The Comstock Club (1891)]

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Philip Verrill Mighels, Bruvver Jim's Baby (1904) -- Part 1 [Title Page, TOC and Chapter 1 (A Mighty Little Hunter); Chapter 2 (Jim Makes Discoveries); Chapter 3 (The Way to Make a Doll); Chapter 4 (Planning a New Celebration); Chapter 5 (Visitors at the Cabin)]; Part 2 [Chapter 6 (The Bell for Church); Chapter 7 (The Sunday Happenings); Chapter 8 (Old Jim Distraught); Chapter 9 (The Guilty Miss Doc); Chapter 10 (Preparations for Christmas)]; Part 3 [Chapter 11 (Troubles and Discoveries); Chapter 12 (The Making of a Christmas-Tree); Chapter 13 (Their Christmas-Day); Chapter 14 ("If Only I Had the Resolution"); Chapter 15 (The Gold in Borealis); Chapter 16 (Arrivals in Camp)]; Part 4 [Chapter 17 (Skeezuks Gets A Name); Chapter 18 (When the Parson Departed); Chapter 19 (Old Jim's Resolution); Chapter 20 (In the Toils of the Blizzard); Chapter 21 (A Bed in the Snow); Chapter 22 (Cleaning Their Slate); Chapter 23 (A Day of Joy)]

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Nevada History:

The Mines of Mono

"Indication," Notes of a Trip Through Western Utah, Alta California (1860) - Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6

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The Mines of Eldorado Cañon

P. W. S., Letter from the Colorado Mines [Alta California, February 10, 1863]

"Knight," Letter from the Colorado Mines [Alta California, April 14, 1863]

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Stagecoach Travel

Dan De Quille, Knights of the Whip [Daily Alta California, 12 April 1885]

Dan De Quille, Staging in Early Days [Daily Alta California, 19 April 1885]

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Nevada Literature:

Rollin M. Daggett, Luke Reynold's Ghost [San Francisco Call, December 25, 1895]

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Sam Davis, Converting a Skeptic [San Francisco Call, December 25, 1895]

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Dan De Quille, An Indian Story of the Sierra Madre [from Cosmopolitan Magazine, June 1895]

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J. H. Mathewson, The Strangling Arm [San Francisco Call, December 25, 1895]

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Oliver Roberts, The Shrinking Rope [San Francisco Call, December 25, 1895]

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Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little Rain (1903) -- Title page, TOC and The Land of Little Rain; Water Trails of the Ceriso; The Scavengers; The Pocket Hunter; Shoshone Land; Jimville – A Bret Harte Town; My Neighbor's Field; The Mesa Trail; The Basket Maker; The Streets of the Mountains; Water Borders; Other Water Borders; Nurslings of the Sky; The Little Town of the Grape Leaves

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Nevada History:

Good-Bye to Old Virginny

Finney, the Discoverer of the Silver Mines of Washoe [from the Daily Alta California, July 22, 1861]

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The Mines of Eldorado Cañon

J. H. R., Diary of Explorations in Search of the Colorado Mines [from the Daily Alta California, July 17-August 2, 1862] Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4

L. P. W., Letter from the New Colorado Mines [from the Daily Alta California, January 16, 1863]

L. P. W., Letter from the New Colorado Mines [from the Daily Alta California, January 28, 1863]

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The Art of Milling Ore

Author unknown (but reads like early Twain), The Method of Managing Silver Mills in Washoe, Territorial Enterprise article, reprinted in Daily Alta California, July 21, 1862]

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The Territorial Judiciary

Pity the Sorrows of the Blind, Thomas Nast cartoon, (1871) [click on image to enlarge]

A Personal Matter in Nevada Territory [Territorial Enterprise article, reprinted in the Sacramento Union, December 28, 1863]

Rumored Corruption [Virginia City Daily Union article, reprinted in the Daily Alta California, May 14, 1864]

Comments upon "Strange Story" in the Union [Carson City Pi-Ute article, reprinted in the Daily Alta California, May 15, 1864]

Judge Locke of Nevada Territory [from the Sacramento Union, May 30, 1864]

How the Grass Valley Mining Company has Spent its Money [Virginia City Daily Union article, reprinted in the Alta California, July 27, 1864]

Important from Nevada Territory [from the Sacramento Union, August 23, 1864]

The Judiciary in Nevada Territory [from the Sacramento Union, August 26, 1864]

Judiciary Matters in Nevada Territory [from the Sacramento Union, August 27, 1864]

A Suit for Damages [Territorial Enterprise article, reprinted in the Sacramento Union, December 13, 1864]

The North-Stewart Imbroglio [Washoe City Times article, reprinted in the Sacramento Union, October 25, 1865]

John Franklin Swift, The Washoe Bar [from Robert Greathouse; Story of the Nevada Silver Mines (1870)]

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Nevada Literature:

Mark Twain, Information for the Million [from The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories (1867)]

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Mark Twain, Mr. Skae's Item [from The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories (1867)]

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Henry Rust Mighels, Letters from Lake Bigler [from Sage Brush Leaves (1879)]

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Sam P. Davis, Schools and Stocks [from Short Stories (1886)]

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Sam P. Davis, The Lumber Herder [from Short Stories (1886)]

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Dan De Quille, A Nevada Lawyer's Ruse [from the New York Sun, June 28, 1885]

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Nevada History:

Dan De Quille, Memories of Washoe [from the Daily Alta California, 2 February 1887]

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Dan De Quille, Nevada Newspapers [from the Daily Alta California, 26 April 1885]

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Nevada Literature:

John Franklin Swift, Robert Greathouse: A Story of the Nevada Silver Mines (unexpurgated edition of 1870) -- Part 1 (Title Page; TOC; The Silver Mines; Edmond Graham, Wife, and Daughter; Bob Greathouse, the Murderer; The Cosmodental Hotel; The Colony of Castaways); Part 2 (Enoch Bloodstone "strikes" it in the Graham Mine; Dame Partlet's Revenge; What constitutes Manhood; High Life; The Bosh Silver-Mining Company); Part 3 (The great Chain-shot Ball; The Fairy Island; The Blackmail Suit; Going to the Mines; Woman's Rights); Part 4 (Strawberry Station; The Carson Grade; Snakeweed and Bittergin, Counsellors-at-Law; Education forms the Common Mind; Jack Gowdy buys Mining Shares); Part 5 (The two Mortgages; Mr. Napoleon B. Spelter; No. 16, American Eagle Hotel; The Washoe Bar; The Patriotism of the Washoe Bar); Part 6 (What the Washoe Bar thinks of itself; A Declaration of Love; An Engagement to Marry; Joy in No. 16, American Eagle Hotel; An old Lover is sent about his Business); Part 7 (The Wedding Day is fixed; More Trouble at the Mine; How Mines are managed in Washoe; Charley Hunter obtains Employment; The Mother and her Offspring); Part 8 (Mr. Graham visits the Fourth Level; Mr. Graham has gone upon a Journey; The Wedding is Postponed; Mrs. Graham goes upon a Journey; A Friend comes to see Helen); Part 9 (A Worthy member of the Washoe Bar; Helen Graham Consults a Lawyer; Conscience an Obstacle to Justice; The Obstacle Removed; The King's Writ runneth not in the Graham Mine); Part 10 (Miss Graham is in very great Trouble; Joseph Bowers, of Calumet Creek; Practice at the Washoe Bar; The Sky is more Overcast; The Clouds begin to lift); Part 11 (Jack Gowdy's Logic; A Private writ of Habeas Corpus; Six Hours ahead of Time; Ten Hours ahead of Time; Serving the writ of Habeas Corpus); Part 12 (The Washoe Bar airs its Eloquence; Napoleon B. Spelter on the War-Path; Home Again; Another engagement to Marry; Jack Gowdy hands in his checks; Exeunt Omnes)

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Dan De Quille, A Dietetic Don Quixote [from the New York Sun, September 13, 1885]

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Dan De Quille, Tongue-Oil Timothy Dead [from the New York Sun, December 5, 1886]

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Sam P. Davis, An Oratorical Reminiscence [from Short Stories (1886)]

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Sam P. Davis, Andy Munroe's Funeral [from Short Stories (1886)]

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Sam P. Davis, Locomotion of Inanimate Things [from Short Stories (1886)]

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Regional History:

J. M. Scanland, Joaquin Murrieta, A Californian Fra Diavolo [from The Overland Monthly, November 1895]

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Nevada History:

Dan De Quille, Comstock Reminiscences [from the Daily Alta California, 29 March 1885:1]

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Rollin M. Daggett, Brisk Days on the Comstock 1 [from the San Francisco Call, August 6, 1893]

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Rollin M. Daggett, Brisk Days on the Comstock 2 [from the San Francisco Call, September 10, 1893]

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Nevada Literature:

Laura L. White, A Story of Donner Lake Pass [from The Overland Monthly, October 1884]

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Dan De Quille, The Comstock Vein [from the Daily Alta California, 3 May 1885]

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Sam P. Davis, The Quill Driver's Convention [from Short Stories (1886)]

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Sam P. Davis, The Reporter's Revenge [from Short Stories (1886)]

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Sam P. Davis, The Typographical Howitzer [from Short Stories (1886)]

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Davis, The Verse Carpenters [from Short Stories (1886)]

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Rollin M. Daggett, My French Friend [from The Overland Monthly, January 1895]

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Dan De Quille, The Black Dog of the Bend [from the San Francisco Call, 19 May 1895]

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Nevada History:

Letter from Carson Valley [from the Sacramento Union February 20, 1860]

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A Bill to Organize the Territory of Nevada, Passed, and Approved by the President [from the Sacramento Union, April 29, 1861]

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Fannie Mayer Bangs, A Faithful Account of the Last Indian Uprising in Nevada [from Nevada Historical Society Papers 1913-1916 (1917)]

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Oscar T. Shuck, David S. Terry [from Bench and Bar in California; History, Anecdotes, Reminiscences (1889)]

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E. G. Waite, An Estimate of the Life and Character of David S. Terry [from The Overland Monthly, October 1889]

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Nevada Literature:

Dan De Quille, One of the Lost [from the New York Sun September 20, 1885]

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Dan De Quille, Chief Geronimo [from the Daily Alta California, 21 September 1885]

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Sam P. Davis, Miss Armstrong's Homicide [from Short Stories (1886)]

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Sam P. Davis, The Candidate's Diary [from Short Stories (1886)]

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Sam P. Davis, The Circus Advance Agent [from Short Stories (1886)]

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James W. Gally, The Lazy Board [from the Pacific Rural Press, 7 January 1888]

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Philip Verrill Mighels, A Nevada Samaritan [from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, July 1905]

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Philip Verrill Mighels, The Mystery at Zeke's [from Harper's Monthly Magazine, July 1906]

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Philip Verrill Mighels, Barney Doon, Braggart [from (ed.) William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden, Life at High Tide. . . (1907)]

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Nevada History:

Crossing the Sierras: Norwegian Snow Skates [from Hutching's Illustrated California Magazine, February 1857]

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Notes and Sketches of the Washoe Country [from Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine, April 1860]

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Notes from the Washoe Silver Mines [a collection of articles from Mining magazine; devoted to mines, mining operations, metallurgy &c., 1859-1860]

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Indian War in Western Utah [articles from Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine, June and July 1860]

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The Pony Express [from Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine, July 1860]

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Sand Clouds on the Desert [from Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine, October 1860]

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The Alligator in Pyramid Lake [from Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine, November 1860]

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Henry DeGroot, The Comstock Lode [from The Overland Monthly, June 1873]

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George Graham Rice, My Adventures With Your Money (1911); Chapter I (Title Page, Table of Contents, The Rise & Fall of Maxim & Gay); Chapter II (Mining Finance at Goldfield); Chapter III (The Brewing of a Saturnalia of Speculation); Chapter IV (The Greenwater Fiasco); Chapter V (On the Eve of the Great Goldfield Smash); Chapter VI (Nipissing and Goldfield Con); Chapter VII (Rawhide); Chapter VIII (The Press Agent and the Public's Money); Chapter IX (The Wall Street Game); Chapter X (Enter, B. H. Scheftels and Company); Chapter XI (A Fight to the Death); Chapter XII (The Lesson of It All)

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Nevada Literature:

Dan De Quille, Old-Time Gold Delvers [from the Daily Alta California, 22 March 1885:1]

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Sam P. Davis, The Pocket-Miner [from Short Stories (1886)]

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James W. Gally, Ghosted [from The Overland Monthly, August 1886]  

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Sam P. Davis, Pine Nutmegs and Bass-wood Hams [from Short Stories (1886)]

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Rollin M. Daggett, O'Doud's Diggin's [from The Overland Monthly, November 1894]

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Dan De Quille, The Metalloscopists [from the San Francisco Call, 17 June 1894:11]

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Sam P. Davis, The Mystery of the Savage Sump [from The Black Cat, December 1901]

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Nevada History:

Amasa Lyman, Report of Journey from San Bernardino to Great Salt Lake City [from Journal of Discourses, vol. 5 (1857)]

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George A. Smith, Report of a Visit to the Southern Country [from Journal of Discourses vol. 5 (1857)]

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Walter M. Leman, Playing the Comstock in 1863-1864 [from Memories of an Old Actor (1886)]

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George E. Peckham, Reminiscences of An Active life [from Nevada Historical Society Papers, 1917-1920 (1920)] Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3

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Idah Meacham Strobridge, In Miner's Mirage-Land (1904) - Part 1 (Foreword; Mirages of the Desert) ; Part 2 (The Myths of the Desert; The Secret Mine of the Brown Men) ; Part 3 (The Charm of the Desert; The Quest of Old Man Berry) ; Part 4 (The Lovers of the Desert; Forman's Find) ; Part 5 (The Lessons of the Desert; The Marvelous Hardin Silver) ; Part 6 (The Lure of the Desert; The Rise and Fall of Hardin City) ;  Part 7 (The Men of the Desert; Three Little Lakes of Gold) ; Part 8 (The Beauty of the Desert; The Lost Blue Bucket Mines) ; Part 9 (A Memory of the Desert; A Desert Mystery) ; Part 10 (The Toll of the Desert; The Graves of the Desert)

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Philip Verrill Mighels, When Mammon Makes a Camp [from Harper's Monthly Magazine, May 1905]

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Nevada Literature:

Noah Brooks, The Gentleman From Reno [from The Overland Monthly, October 1868]

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J. W. Gally, How Bill Was Mistaken [from The Overland Monthly, October 1874]

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Sam P. Davis, A Christmas Carol [from Short Stories (1886)]; also published as The First Piano in Camp (1919)

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Sam P. Davis, A Carson Poker Incident, from Short Stories (1886)]

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Sam Davis, A Fair Exchange [from The Overland Monthly, May 1884]

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Sam P. Davis, A Sage-Brush Chief [from Short Stories (1886)]

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Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye, Big Steve [from Bill Nye's Sparks (1901)]

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Sara Dean, How Wilson's Claim Was Jumped [from Sunset, February 1907]

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Regional History:

Henry DeGroot, Six Months in '49 [from The Overland Monthly, April, 1875]

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Harry L. Wells, Gold Lake [from The Overland Monthly, November 1884]

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Centennial of the Mexican Revolution:

Edward I. Bell, The Political Shame of Mexico (1914) Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4 ; Part 5 ; Part 6 ; Part 7

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Nevada History:

R. M. Evans, The Silver and Gold Mines of Nevada [from Gazlay's Pacific Monthly Magazine, January 1865]

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R. M. Evans, A Trip to Nevada [from Gazlay's Pacific Monthly, March 1865]

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R. M. Evans, Virginia City and Its Surroundings [from Gazlay's Pacific Monthly Magazine, May 1865]

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Thomas Fitch

Thomas Fitch, Nevada [from Harper's Monthly Magazine, August 1865]

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William Nye, A Winter Among the Piutes [from The Overland Monthly, March, 1886]

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Dan DeQuille, Reporting with Mark Twain [from The Californian Illustrated Magazine, July 1893]

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Nevada Literature:

Prentice Mulford, A Prospector's Story [from The Overland Monthly, April, 1869]

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Mrs. R. H. Raymond, A Tale of the Nevada Desert [from The Overland Monthly, August 1874]

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Samuel Post Davis

Sam Davis, The Parish Primaries [from The Californian, May 1881]

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Idah Meacham Strobridge, The Happy Hunting Ground: A Piute Doctrine [from The Land of Sunshine, June 1899]

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Martinetta Kinsell, The Moonwitch, A Legend of Lake Tahoe [from The Overland Monthly, May 1903]

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Mary Austin, Mahala Joe [from The Atlantic Monthly, July 1904]

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Philip Verrill Mighels, A Little Pioneer [from Harper's Monthly Magazine, May 1905]

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Philip Verrill Mighels, Billy Does His Assessment [from Harper's Monthly Magazine, January 1905]

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Nevada History:

George Wharton James, Frémont and the Discovery of Lake Tahoe [from The lake of the sky, Lake Tahoe, in the high Sierras of California and Nevada (1915)]

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George Wharton James, The Indians of Lake Tahoe [from The lake of the sky, Lake Tahoe, in the high Sierras of California and Nevada (1915)]

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George Wharton James, Indian Legends of the Tahoe Region [from The lake of the sky, Lake Tahoe, in the high Sierras of California and Nevada (1915)]

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George Wharton James, The Various Names of Lake Tahoe [from The lake of the sky, Lake Tahoe, in the high Sierras of California and Nevada (1915)]

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Nevada History:

James Capen "Grizzly" Adams

Theodore H. Hittell, Grizzly Adams in Nevada [from The adventures of James Capen Adams, mountaineer and grizzly bear hunter, of California (1860)]

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Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bart., Virginia City in 1866 [from Greater Britain; a record of travel in English-speaking countries in 1866 and 1867 (1890)]

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Bolton Coit Brown, The Pack Mule [from The Atlantic Monthly, November 1904]

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Nevada Literature:

Mary Austin, Winneduma [from The Land of Sunshine, May 1898]

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Dr. George Gwyther, Sage Brush Bill [from The Overland Monthly, Nov. 1871]

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Mrs. W. W. Macomber, The Gossip of Gold Hill [from The Overland Monthly, March 1873]

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Nevada History:

C. Amy Cohn, Arts and Crafts of the Nevada Indians  [from Nevada Historical Society Papers vol. 1 (1909)]

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Jules Remy and Julius Brenchley, A Trip Across Southern Nevada in 1855 [from A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City vol. 2 (1861)] Chapter 1 (From Salt Lake City to Fillmore);   Chapter 2 (From Fillmore to Las  Vegas);  Chapter 3 (From Las Vegas to Los Angeles);  Chapter 4 (Los Angeles and the Coast of California)   

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J. A. Yerington, Stories of Hank Monk  [from Sunset, November 1903]

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R. L. Fulton, Reminiscences of Nevada  [from Nevada Historical Society Papers vol. 1 (1909)]

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Beulah Hershiser, The Adjustment of the Boundaries of Nevada  [from Nevada Historical Society Papers vol. 1 (1909)]

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Nevada Literature:

Dr. James W. Gally

James W. Gally, Shackle-foot Sam  [from The Overland Monthly, December 1874]

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"The Gatherer," Forty Mince Pies  [from Literary California, Poetry, Prose and Portraits (1918)]

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Rollin Mallory Daggett

Rollin M. Daggett, My News Year's Guests  [from Literary California, Poetry, Prose and Portraits (1918)]

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Adelaide Soulé, Helping the Highwayman  [from Sunset, November 1910]

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Ella Sterling Cummins Mighels, Writers of the Sagebrush School  [from The story of the files; a review of Californian writers and literature (1893)]

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Centennial of the Mexican Revolution:

Major Edward S. O'Reilly

Major Edward S. O'Reilly, Roving and Fighting in the Mexican Revolution  [from Roving and Fighting: Adventures Under Four Flags (1918)]

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Nevada History:

Jules Remy and Julius Brenchley, A Trip Across Northern Nevada in 1855 [from A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City vol. 1 (1861)] Part 1 (Chapter 1 - From Sacramento to Carson Valley);  Part 2 (Chapter 2 - From Carson Valley to Haws's Ranch);  Part 3 (Chapter 3 - From Haws's Ranch to the New Jerusalem);  Part 4 (Chapter 4 - The New Jerusalem)

"There went to Bullionville four young men, polite gentlemanly fellows, all under thirty years of age. They were Michael Casey, Barney Flood, Morgan Courtney, and William Bethers. They said to Raymond and Ely: 'We will drive those fellows off if you will give us a written promise that we can have the ground for thirty days.' The bargain was made and operations begun."

Charles Gracey, Early Days in Lincoln County [from Nevada Historical Society Papers vol. 1 (1908)]

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Nevada Literature:

"It might be a useful, certainly a curious, study to find out how much alcohol in its various drinkable forms—mostly whisky, however—has had to do with the advancement of civilization and the establishment of good government; for it seems to be a fact, that the drinker of the more fiery potations, however much they may have damaged themselves, have always been the staunchest creators and supporters of good government."

James W. Gally, Quartz [from Short Stories by California Authors (1885)]

           " What is your name, my child ? ' said the taller of the two ruffians that were holding me under their guns.

            " ' Acts o' 'Postles,' said I almost before thinking.

Dan DeQuille, The Seven Nimrods of the Sierra [fromThe Overland Monthly, January 1888]

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Centennial of the Mexican Revolution:

John Kenneth Turner, Barbarous Mexico (1910) Part 1 (Chapters 1-5); Part 2 (Chapters 6-10); Part 3 (Chapters 11-13);  Part 4 (Chapters 14-17) 

"WHAT has happened in Mexico, with dramatic and startling rapidity, is the disintegration of a legend. It was not a baseless legend: few legends are. There was a large substratum of truth in it. Many men have left unalterably graven on the tablets of history reputations far less genuine than that of Porfirio Diaz. But these were men who had the good fortune to die at the right moment."

William Archer, The Collapse of the Diaz Legend [from McClure's Magazine, August 1911]

"The opposition received new strength in 1908 in consequence of a statement of President Díaz to James Creelman, published in the March number of Pearson's Magazine, where the President was quoted as declaring, ' No matter what my friends and, supporters say, I retire when my presidential term of office ends, and I shall not serve again. * * * I welcome an opposition party in the Mexican Republic. * * * If it can develop power, not to exploit but to govern, I will stand by it.' This interview encouraged the formation of the No reelection or Antireelection Party, and hastened the publication (October, 1908) of Francisco I. Madero's book, ' La Sucesión Presidential,' which voiced that party's sentiments and had for its immediate object the formation of a public opinion against the reelection of President Díaz, in 1910."

U. S. State Department, Events Leading Up To The Revolution in Mexico [from Foreign Relations of the United States 1911, Mexico (1912)]

"I had never met Mr. Madero before, but Will has known him for years. He is a small, almost timid-looking man, and until you hear him speak you would not believe that he had the courage to attempt such a foolhardy undertaking. He is full of his subject and assures us that the movement is far more general than we realize."

Alice Day McLaren, The Tragic Ten Days of Madero [from Scribner's Magazine, January 1914]

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Nevada History:

"When a stallion succeeds in leading his band away from their pursuers more than two or three times, he or his band soon receive local names. Many of these studs were able to avoid capture for years. The "Pinto" bunch which ranged near Dry Creek on the east side of Pine Valley about thirty-five miles south of the Central Pacific railroad owed its liberty to the cunning of the big Pinto stallion that led them even more than to their own fleetness and endurance."

Charles (Pete) Barnum, How I Trap Wild Horses [from Sunset, August 1908]

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"IN ten years from now the only market for horses will be the museum. In ten years from now I shall be forty-eight, which is too old to break into a new game in order to support a wife and child. So I'm giving up the truest sport and finest business in the world. I'm not going to trap another band of wild horses in the rugged mountains of Nevada."

Sunset editorial staff, A Horseless Horsemen [from Sunset, May 1914]

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"A STATE where no special attention until recently has been paid to its agricultural resources; desolate and unpropitious when viewed from the car windows of the transcontinental trains which traverse little of its farming sections; and for fifty years given over to mining as its paramount industry, with stock-raising second and farming third in the industrial list; with a preconceived opinion in the minds of the public that, generally speaking, it is as hopeless of transformation into fields of husbandry as are the tablelands of central Asia, or the Desert of Sahara -- Nevada is somewhat handicapped in its appeal to homeseekers in that conditions are not what they are understood to be and that this great inland empire has its own marvelous agricultural destiny."

C. A. Norcross, Agricultural Nevada (1914)

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Nevada Literature:

"On awaking the next morning, we found that only enough snow had fallen to whiten the ground. This soon disappeared under a bright sun. Nearly all our party then said, " All the snow is now out of the air; this ends it—there will be no big storm for a month." Such was the talk that morning with a bright sky above us."

Dan DeQuille, The Perils of the High Sierras [fromThe Overland Monthly, March 1887]

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"Everything he saw called forth a joke or a quaint saying. His drollery was without effort. His fun like the quality of mercy was not strained. It was natural to him to see the comical side of everything. He teemed with waggery which on the slightest provocation expanded into a surprising flow of facetiousness—into a merry, sportive string of pleasantries."

Dan DeQuille, Artemus Ward in Nevada [from The Californian Illustrated Magazine, August 1893]

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American History:

Getting Good Government

"IN November, 1890, a mayor for the term of two years was to be elected in the city of New York. It was a foregone conclusion that the Democratic candidate, whoever he might be, would be chosen, and naturally, as the time for making nominations approached, there was much speculation, in the newspapers and elsewhere, as to who would receive the office. But, strangely enough, there seemed to be a dearth of nominees ; persons were not " prominently mentioned," as is usual under such circumstances ; and in fact it was utterly uncertain whom the electors had in mind, until a private citizen of New York opportunely arrived home from Europe. This was Mr. Richard Croker. When Mr. Croker came, New York found out who its chief executive officer was to be. He named the candidate ; the delegates to the nominating convention ratified his choice, and in due course the electors confirmed it."

Henry Childs Merwin, Tammany Hall [from The Atlantic Monthly, February 1894]

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"We were attacked with the most bitter animosity by every sensational newspaper and every politician of the baser sort, not because of our shortcomings, but because of what we did that was good."

Theodore Roosevelt, Municipal Administration: The New York Police Force [from The Atlantic Monthly, September 1897]

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"There was an American way, already well known, of meeting other difficulties of government, but the American way of governing large cities under a pure democracy no one seemed to have considered. The American way of curing all evils had hitherto been simply to turn out the party in power, and try the other. "

E. L. Godkin, Peculiarities of American Municipal Government [from The Atlantic Monthly, November 1897]

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"More and more, it is said, the work of governments is falling into the hands of men to whom even small pay is important, and who are suspected of adding to their income by corruption. The withdrawal of the more intelligent class from legislative duties is more and more lamented, and the complaint is somewhat justified by the mass of crude, hasty, incoherent, and unnecessary laws which are poured on the world at every session. It is increasingly difficult to-day to get a man of serious knowledge on any subject to go to Congress, if he have other pursuits and other sources of income. To get him to go to the state legislature, in any of the populous and busy States, is well-nigh impossible."

E. L. Godkin, The Decline of Legislatures, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1897]

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How Nevada Became a Territory:

Colonel Albert G. Brown, Jr., The Utah Expedition: Its Causes and Consequences [from The Atlantic Monthly, March-May 1859] Part 1;  Part 2;  Part 3  

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Nevada History:

"KERR was a man whose name fitted him like a glove."

J. H. Cradlebaugh, When Kerr Dropped Out [from Sunset, February 1906]

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"Reports floated back from Old Washoe, as the country was known at that time, and many a miner who had not met with good luck in the Golden State drifted across the mountains and went into the scramble for wealth on the other side."

Sam Davis, Comstock Croppings [from Sunset, February 1906]

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"WHEN Harry Stimler and Will Marsh failed to make their pile at Tonopah they accepted their fate with equanimity and refused to be discouraged."

James F. O'Brien, Nevada's Latest Bonanza [from Sunset, August 1904]

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"THERE are some twenty-five thousand people in the new mining districts of Nevada, and the larger part of them are watching for new camps and new openings."

Fred Pheby, Next Boom is Panamint [from Sunset, December 1905]

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"The trip to Tonopah and Goldfield, Columbia and Diamondfield today, compared with that of twelve months ago, might be likened to the sudden change from laborious ox-teams to the Pullman car."

F. McPherson, In the Tonopah Country [from Sunset, December 1905]

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"It is singular that there should be fascination great enough in the pursuit of this gleaming mineral to hold men enthralled so completely that they take no thought of the arid desert, the penetrating gray dust, the glare of the midsummer sun and lack of creature comforts; forget everything but the shimmering golden harvest."

Clara Douglas, What Tonopah's Gold Has Wrought [from Sunset, February 1906]

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"Venturesome men are swarming over the southern desert, where the foot of white man, or even Indian, never trod and the result is that new discoveries of mineral, especially gold, are constantly being made."

K. R. Casper, Silver State Gold Surprises [from Sunset, March 1906]

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"SURPRISES in the way of new discoveries of mines and the opening up of new mining districts and the resurrection of old ones, long since supposed to have been "played out," are still the order of the day in Nevada."

K. R. Casper, The Gold of Fairview [from Sunset, January 1907]

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"In October, 1907, a dozen prospectors, a half-dozen tents and a few burros were all the camp could boast. To-day it is a wide-awake, hustling mining camp, the city having a population of about eight thousand and the district probably twelve thousand."

J. H. Cradlebaugh, Rawhide and Its Gold: The Newest Record-Breaker Among the Wonderful Treasure Towns of Nevada [from Sunset, July 1908]

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Nevada Literature:

"WHEN it snows in Nevada it blows; but the desert earth, under the fallen snow, is usually warm enough to cause the snow to adhere to the heels of boots in great rough buttons, which, when they fall off the heel, leave upturned in the foot-prints of the walker sharply defined and dirty impressions of various tack-heads and heel-taps. "

Dr. J. W. Gally, The Frozen Truth [from The Overland Monthly, October 1875]

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"In 1858, a couple of ragged and vermin-inhabited prospectors, wandering about one of the spurs of the Sierra, discovered gold, an article for which they had been assiduously searching for some months. Immediately on fixing their hungry optics to the fragment of auriferous rock, they gave a shout of delight, drove down a stake, fixed a notice of location, and announced the birth of a new town, calling the same Treasure Peaks."

Sam Davis, The Hermit of Treasure Peaks [from The Californian, April 1880]

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"A WAVE of moral turpitude had struck the mining-camp of Lundy Diggings, which was (and, for that matter, is) in Mono county, California. Colonel Jim Townsend, editor of the Mining Index, and the moral, social and political mentor of the Diggings, was, in a measure, so to speak, the original ripple from which had grown the said wave of moral turpitude. The Colonel started the downward plunge by fathering a string of most phenomenal lies, directed for the most part toward belittling the neighboring camp of Aurora, just across the line in Nevada."

Peter B. Kyne, The Great Mono Miracle: An Echo of Mark Twain [from Sunset, July 1912]

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Regional History:

"The magnitude of the enterprise, the benefits resulting from it both to the commercial world and the mining community, and the difficulties encountered in carrying it into effect are not yet fully appreciated."

J. Ross Browne, The Overland Telegraph [from Resources of the Pacific Slope (1869), pp. 431-442]

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"At Dry Lake, a waterless basin in the centre of the beds, the men were hurried from their blankets in the gray of morning by a rattling volley from Modoc rifles and deafening yells of exultation. "

William M. Bunker, In the Lava Beds [from The Californian, February 1880]

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"So the mystery of Turner's disappearance remained unsolved."

J. W. Redington, Trooper Turner: A Military Mystery of a Man and a Mule [from Sunset, February 1907]

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Centennial of the Mexican Revolution:

James Creelman, President Diaz: Hero of the Americas [from Pearson's Magazine, March 1908]

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Pierre N. Beringer, The Awakening of a Nation: Marvelous Mexico and the Muck Raker [from The Overland Monthly, July 1910]

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Nevada History:

"Arrangements had been made for holding court in the loft of a stable, and the preliminary work, owing to the crowded condition of the room, was almost impossible."

J. H. Cradlebaugh, The Mormon Station [from Sunset, November 1905]

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"THE breaking out of the Piute war in the spring of 1860, found me illy prepared for it. There had been blood-curdling rumors in circulation for several weeks, which some of my adult friends retailed to me with ornate embellishments that would make a Cheefoo despatch seem like a Sunday-school lesson. "

J. H. Cradlebaugh, The Piute War, [from Sunset, July 1905]

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"In the spring of 1860 the Kingsbury grade was completed, becoming the main highway between California and western Utah, and over this the black current of wealth seekers flowed. Among the birds of prey who followed this stream as gulls follow a school of herring, was Sam Brown, a big, red-headed Texan, weighing two hundred and fifty pounds, every ounce of which was meaner, viler, and more wicked than all the others put together."

J. H. Cradlebaugh, The Hatching of the Sage-Hen [from Sunset, May 1905]

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"ONE frequently hears of the "political corpse" in a campaign, but I never knew of but one real political corpse in my life, and that was the one which "Cleve," the political manipulator from White Pine county, Nevada, rang in on the Republican convention at Winnemucca."

Sam Davis, A Political Corpse [from Sunset, September 1903]

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"THE story of the discovery of Tonopah reads like an Arabian Night's tale."

Sam C. Dunham, Tonopah and Its Gold [from Sunset, May 1903]

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"THE history of mines and mining camps is always an interesting subject. The circumstances under which so-called worthless public domain is accidentally made to bring forth endless treasure are always read with close attention. No less interesting are the histories of the men who made the discoveries and aided in their development."

K. R. Casper, The Money-Makers of Goldfield [from Sunset, July 1905]

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"THE awakening of southern Nevada seems little short of marvelous. This is written in the town of Beatty on the Amargosa river right in the heart of the now famous Bullfrog district in the southern part of Nye county, and the only oasis in this immense desert."

K. R. Casper, The Bullfrog Bonanza: How Recent Gold Discoveries Have Awakened Southern Nevada and Added New Towns to the Map [from Sunset, August 1905]

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"AT THE northern end of the crescent-shaped, high range of the Red Mountains, Southern Nevada, rises a high point known as "Silver Peak." This mountain stands forty-five miles south of Candelaria and thirty-seven miles southwest of Tonopah. In the early days of mining excitement in Nevada it was one of the best known gold-yielding rocks of the state."

Clara E. Douglas, Silver Peak [from Sunset, December 1906]

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"The most popular modern mining camp on the Western Slope is marked on the map by a constellation of small towns in the Nevada desert, twenty-four hours by rail from San Francisco, over the spine of the Sierras and on across an illimitable expanse of sage and sand."

Elmer B. Harris, The New West: A Social Study of Life in Nevada's Towns Today [from Sunset, February 1907]

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Nevada Literature:

"I WISH I could tell the tale in the broken words and with the strange gestures of the old Indian woman, for it will doubtless lose its weird pathos, even if I try ever so hard to tell it exact."

Nonette V. McGlashan, The Legend of Lake Tahoe [from Sunset, August 1905]

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"Well, I have been here in Nevada for a good while, and first and last have had something to do with many of the worst scamps we have ever had in this State ; but, for coolness and tact, I put down Mat Kingman as highest by a few spots. The best thing I ever knew of him happened a little less than four years ago, not long after I was elected judge of this district. Manley remembers it. He was district attorney then, and was sold worse than the rest of us, by a little."

George D. Keeney, A Sage-Brush Alibi [from The Overland Monthly, February 1875]

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"'Twas a dreary day at Pine Nut, and gloom was everywhere;

                        There was sadness in the little camp and sorrow in the air.

                        A more doleful set of faces one would not care to see,

Sam Davis, Bill Magee of Pine Nut: An Epic of a Nevada Mining Camp [from Sunset, August 1904]

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"I had gone into the Square Deal saloon Friday night, after getting into Sand Springs. Now Sand Springs weren't calculated to please the beauty-loving eye. Take a stretch of dirty white alkali country, throw a few sagebrush around, put up a feed corral and a combination saloon and eating-house, filled with flies, bad language, and an unsatisfactory odor of bacon and tobacco, and you've got Sand Springs and the Square Deal."

W. Fay Boericke, Sand Springs to Hazen [from Sunset, Dec 1906]

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"BY PROFESSION I am a promoter, dealing particularly in mining properties. It is an occupation requiring a certain mental makeup that is born, not made."

W. Fay Boericke, Finance in Fairview [from Sunset, February 1907]

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"RHYOLITE in midwinter, with the snow five feet deep on Bonanza mountain, with an icy wind howling across the flat, with every road well nigh impassable, was not an attractive place."

W. Fay Boericke, The Goldfield Way [from Sunset, November 1907]

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Nevada History:

"We can only form a very inadequate conception, however, of the difficulties of that route over the icy mountain barriers when, to-day, seated in the comfortable cars of the Central Pacific, we are whirled in a few hours from the neighborhood of the Donner tragedy to luxurious cities and a land of summer at the foot of the mountain's western declivity. A truer estimate of these difficulties may be obtained by a horseback ride over another of the routes of pioneer immigration, which traverses a region of the Sierras that has since remained in its almost primitive tracklessness—the old Lassen trail."

Oscar F. Martin, The Old Lassen Trail [from The Overland Monthly, July 1883]

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"Well!" he added, "if he don't steal the Golden Gate before he is in California three months, it will be because the government takes it in at night."

J. H. Cradlebaugh, Ragtown of Nevada [from Sunset, October 1905]

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"It was with the hope of saving the life of this daughter and that of Aaron that the widowed mother had left her home in the East. They traveled by way of the route north of Salt Lake City and arrived in Carson City on the twenty-fifth of August, 1859. The present capital of Nevada was then a hamlet of four houses."

Aaron D. Campton, Experiences of a Nevada Pioneer [from the Second Biennial Report of the Nevada Historical Society 1909-1910 (1911)]

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"THE phenomenally rich discoveries made during the past few years in the mining camps of Tonopah, Goldfield, Bullfrog and other districts in Nevada, have not only stimulated mining in many of the older camps but have attracted attention to mines that were once found and then lost. The recent display of wealth by a cowboy-miner, and his lavish expenditure of it in Los Angeles and later in New York City, have revived the story that the old Breyfogle mine, which created such a furore in California and Nevada in the early sixties, has been rediscovered."

K. R. Casper, The Story of Breyfogle [from Sunset, October 1905]

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"It has been the pleasant custom of Messrs. Sparks and Harrell, for a dozen years past, to gather a genial company about them, and taking a big grub wagon well-loaded, a cook and a caballaranjo (pronounced cavarango) pitch camp in the heart of their great cattle range in northeastern Nevada and Southern Idaho, to hunt the antelope and the deer."

R. L. Fulton, Camp Life on a Great Cattle Range in Northern Nevada [from Sunset, July 1900]

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Nevada Literature:

"The nest is over a part of the cañon that is about one thousand feet deep, and out on the branches of a nearly horizontal tree. Not a man in the State has the nerve to climb out along the trunk of that cedar and bring in the young eagles ! "

Dan DeQuille, The Eagle's Nest [from The Overland Monthly, May 1891]

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"'Tis nawthing," says Barney when you ask him about it, "only an incydent of the desert."

Charles W. Coyle, The Desert Rat [from The Overland Monthly, January 1911]

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"For many years had there been peace between the Pah-Utes and the Shoshones, and the grass grew green over the slumbering tomahawk."

A. H. Martin, The Valley of Bubbling Earth: A Legend of Coso Springs [from The Overland Monthly, April 1911]

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"In the general scheme of the highgraders, "Dad" played the old prospector act, the desert mystery just in from a long, weary trip over the alkali where he had spotted some fabulous chimneys of rich ore. He appeared in the morning, and the same night vanished with a string of burros loaded with grub, but a close inspection under the tarpaulins would have revealed loot rich enough for Ali Baba's renowned forty thieves."

Charles W. Coyle, The Highgraders [from The Overland Monthly, April 1911]

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Regional History:

"The taking of furs in the streams which formed the headwaters of the Missouri, the Columbia and the Colorado, had gone on until, in 1833, it was evident that new grounds for trapping must be found or the business itself would soon be ruined."

F. N. Fletcher, The Trappers and Explorers of the Great Basin [from the Nevada Historical Society Papers (1920)]

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"At a time when it was generally believed that serious Indian troubles were a thing of the past, a wave of superstition has swept over the remnants of aboriginal humanity still lingering among us, which at one time seemed likely to involve us in one of the bloodiest Indian wars in our history."

E. L. Huggins, Smohalla, The Prophet of Priest Rapids [from The Overland Monthly, February 1891]

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Nevada History:

"I had only been a few hours on the lower section, when I was informed that there were several men in our camp who could ride in the flume, -- leap upon a passing jam of wood as it went rushing and seething by, maintain their balance, and go winding down the mountains and over gulches like a flash of light ; and I was further told that when going down to Carson some of these men traveled down to the edge of the valley in that way. I was incredulous."

[John Brayshaw Kaye, Down a Mountain Flume [from The Overland Monthly, January 1892]

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"A. J. Leathers, Thomas Murphy, Morrill, and others, who were the pioneer prospectors, gave but little attention to the district, until in 1868, following the directions of an Indian, they explored the naked summit of Treasure Hill, and there found that extraordinary body of mineral wealth which soon after led to the concentration of population in that quarter, and the organization of a new county. The news of this wonderful discovery went, as though borne on the wings of the wind, to every city, town and camp in the State. Population gathered in, like the waters from a cloudburst, suddenly and in overwhelming numbers."

History of White Pine County [from Myron Angel, History of the State of Nevada, Thompson & West (1881)]

Nevada Literature:

"The truth is always bitter; from pretty lips, it is doubly so, even though the girl be -- but this had been mere conjecture upon my part. I may have been hasty in judgment."

Richard L. Rinckwitz, The Circe of Lahontan Basin: A Story of Nevada's Desert [from The Overland Monthly, July 1908]

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Nevada History:

"Once the Indians possessed all this beautiful country; now they have none. Then they lived happily, and prayed to the Great Spirit. But the white man came, with his cursed whisky and selfishness and greed, and drove out the poor Indian, because he was more numerous and better armed and knew more knowledge. I see very well that all my race will die out."

Sarah Winnemucca, The Pah-Utes [from The Californian, September, 1882]

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"John is superintendent of the 'Great Bamboozle ' now, and is besides a member of the Legislature, so of course we move in the best society. I spent a week with him in Carson a little while ago—when they were attempting to pass a bill by which a wife might insure her husband's life without his knowledge or consent. The bill did not pass, though fair notes from fair ladies entreated the suffrages of the honorable senators."

Louise M. Palmer, How We Live in Nevada [from The Overland Monthly, May 1869]

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"Looking up I saw a long jet of white steam shoot far up into the air from the top of the mesa. Another and another followed, and in a few minutes a dozen or more were rising from different parts of the hillside, and one or two from the plain at its foot."

Col. Albert S. Evans, In Whirlwind Valley [from The Overland Monthly, February 1869]

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"We bend our heads against the storm, and in a minute a wondrous change has come over the entire party. Grizzled and white-haired as an octogenarian is every man ; moustaches and whiskers are masses of ice, and everyone wears a sparkling suit of silver gray. What shapes are these which like phantoms of the air come silently towards us moving with the storm ?"

Col. Albert S. Evans, Up in the Po-go-nip [from The Overland Monthly, March 1869]

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"There comes no sound of the church-going bell, and no long lines of people clad in solemn black are to be seen wending their way toward places of worship, but nevertheless any one with half an eye can see that it is Sunday ; there are twice as many idlers on the streets ; three times as many drunken miners in the saloons, and a far greater number of men recklessly throwing away their earnings at the gambling tables as on a week day, and although it is only 1 P.M., there has been some excitement in town already."

Col. Albert S. Evans, Among the Clouds [from The Overland Monthly, July, 1869]

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"On the south-west slope are the celebrated Bromide, Chloride, and Pogonip Flats, which gently undulate from the southernmost of the two peaks, down toward the main cañon—now the road from Hamilton to Shermantown. On these flats the richest ores of the district, next to the Eberhardt, have been found; and they are the most easily mined and milled, perhaps, of any silver ores in the world. The fame of White Pine has arisen from these flats ; and to-day they present an appearance of being thoroughly honey-combed."

William T. E. Pritchard, White Pine [from The Overland Monthly, September, 1869]

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"It will surprise many to learn that there was once open rebellion against the authority, peace, and dignity of the great State of California, and that the residents of that fair land of sage which rolls away in gray vistas from the marshy banks of Honey Lake, were once in arms against the lawful authorities of the State as represented in the persons of the sheriff of Plumas County and that most dreadfully sounding thing, a posse comitatus."

H. L. Wells, The Sage-Brush Rebellion [from The Overland Monthly, March 1889]

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"For many years 'Baldy' Green was a favorite driver in the Sierra, but in 1866, and for a long time afterwards, he drove out of Virginia City, Nevada, on the Austin drive as far as Big Ned's, seventy-five miles from Virginia. He was nearly six feet in height and proportionately built, and was altogether as handsome a man as one could wish to meet. His eye was large, lustrous, and beautiful. His moustache was perfect."

Maj. Ben C. Truman, Knights of the Lash [from The Overland Monthly, March and April, 1898]

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Nevada Literature:

"Where was I?" asked Dick Davis, looking inquiringly upon the faces of the half dozen " old boys " seated about the table, within easy reach of the bean pot and pickles.

            " Where were you ? " cried Lucky Bill.

            " Why, you muggins, you have not yet begun your story ! You've had your nose in your beer mug."

Dan De Quille, Luck: A Prospector Strikes a Queer Streak [from The Overland Monthly, February 1891]

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"What I'd like to be shore of," said he one day, "is this yere: Kin a American citizen die, when his time comes, satisfied that he leaves a republic behind what'll continue as it was laid out to; an' that he's goin' to sech a country as his mother thought she was goin' to. Now, them's two o' the biggest pints in Ameriky. And dern my skin ef I hain't get doubts about 'em both !"

Dr. J. W. Gally, Big Jack Small [from The Overland Monthly, August, 1910]

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Nevada History:

R. M. Bucke, Twenty-five Years Ago [from The Overland Monthly, June 1883]

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Dan De Quille (William Wright), Snow-Shoe Thompson [from The Overland Monthly, October 1886]

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Albert S. Evans, A Winter Night's Ride in the Sierra [from The Overland Monthly, June 1870]

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David Thompson (comp.),  Indian Agency Reports pertaining to Nevada, 1859; 1862; 1863; 1864; 1865; 1866; 1867; 1868 [From the Annual Reports of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs]

Related Reading

David Thompson (comp.), Letters from Nevada Indian Agents 1849-1861 (1981): 1849; 1850; 1851; 1852; 1853; 1854; 1855; 1856; 1857;  1858; 1859; 1860; 1861

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George Thomas Marye Jr., Commerce on the Comstock 1869-1881 [excerpt from George Thomas Marye Jr., From '49 to '83 in California and Nevada (1923)]

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Frank R. Williams, Nevada's School Revenue System; Do We Need Change? [article from The Nevada School Journal (1909)]

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A. A. Codd, Employment and Salaries of Teachers [article from The Nevada School Journal (1909)]

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How Nevada Became a Territory:

The Western United States, 1853 (Mary B. Ansari Map Collection, University of Nevada - Reno) [click on image to enlarge]

H. H. Bancroft, The Utah War [from Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Utah (1890)] Part 1;  Part 2;  Part 3;  Part 4

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John D. Lee, Last Confession and Statement of John D. Lee [from John D. Lee, Mormonism Unveiled (1877)] Part 1;  Part 2

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Robert N. Baskin, The Mountain Meadows Massacre Trials [from Robert N. Baskin, Reminiscences of early Utah (1914)]

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Testimony of James Holt Haslam [from C. W. Penrose, Supplement to the Lecture on the Mountain Meadows Massacre (1885)]

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Condition of Affairs in the Territory of Utah [House Executive Document No. 25, 32nd Cong., 1st Sess.] (1852)

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Mountain Meadows, and other massacres in Utah Territory [Senate Executive Document No. 42, 36th Cong., 1st Sess.] (1860) Part 1 (Secretary of War);  Part 2 (Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Secretary of the Interior);  Part 3 (Commissioner of Indian Affairs - Subsequent Massacres)

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T. B. H. Stenhouse, Utah Territory and the Federal Government 1849-1861 [excerpt from T. B. H. Stenhouse, The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons (1873)] Part 1;  Part 2;  Part 3;  Part 4

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Capt. James H. Carleton, Special Report of the Mountain Meadow Massacre,  House Document No. 605, 57th Cong., 1st Sess. (1859; reprinted 1902)

John Cradlebaugh, Speech of John Cradlebaugh of Nevada, on the Admission of Utah As a State (1863) Speech;  Appendix 

The Utah Expedition [House Executive Document No. 71, 35th Cong., 1st Sess.] (1858) Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4

Messages and Proclamations of President James Buchanan regarding the Army Expedition to Utah [Excerpts from The Works of James Buchanan, vol. 10 (1908)]

Condition of Affairs in Utah Territory [House Executive Document No. 78, 36th Congress, 1st Sess.] (1860)

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Regional History:

Robert Welles Ritchie, The Hell-roarin' Forty-niners (1928)

• Grass Valley

• The Luck of Michael Brennan

• Nevada City

• Downieville

• The Hanging of Juanita

• The Tevis-Lippincott Duel

• The Sage Brush War

• Concerning Bald-Headed Whizzers

• How Reelfoot Williams Got His Name

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Nevada History Texts:

"In the spring and early summer of 1858 a series of events took place in western Utah which caused great excitement throughout that region. The first of these was the murder of Henry Gordier, a Frenchman, in Honey Lake valley, and the events that followed were the result of this."

Asa Merrill Fairfield, The Murder of Henry Gordier,  [excerpt from Asa Merrill Fairfield, Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California (1916)]

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"On my return to Honolulu I was astonished to find that 'Mark Twain' had arrived a few days before. He was in San Francisco when I left holding the position of reporter on the Call. 'How in thunder, Mark,' I asked him when we met, 'does it happen that you have come here?' 'Well, you see,' said Mark, in his peculiar drawl, 'I waited for six months for you fellows to discharge me—for I knew you did not want me,—and getting tired of waiting, I discharged myself.'

Col. James J. Ayers, Mark Twain Doing the Islands  [excerpt from Col. James J. Ayers, Gold and sunshine, reminiscences of early California (1922)]

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"I had not been long in the editorial chair of the Enterprise before mysterious hints about marvelous discoveries came from the region of White Pine. Information from that remote locality continued to come to the office during the summer of 1868, and from sources so authentic and direct as to leave no room to doubt that a rich and extensive system of mines had been discovered at Treasure Hill."

Col. James J. Ayers, A Disastrous Newspaper Venture  [excerpt from Col. James J. Ayers, Gold and sunshine, reminiscences of early California (1922)]

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Dr. Garland Hurt, Indians of Utah (1860) [From Report of explorations across the great basin of the territory of Utah for a direct wagon-route from Camp Floyd to Genoa, in Carson Valley (1876)]

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Edward M. Kern, Journal of an Exploration of Mary's or Humboldt River, Carson Lake, and Owens River and Lake in 1845 [From Report of explorations across the great basin of the territory of Utah for a direct wagon-route from Camp Floyd to Genoa, in Carson Valley (1876)]

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Regional History:

H. H. Bancroft, Idaho's Indian Wars [excerpt from H. H. Bancroft, History of Washington, Idaho and Montana (1890)]

David Thompson (comp.), US Army Operations in Nevada Territory 1861; US Army Operations in Nevada Territory 1862 (Jan-Jun); US Army Operations in Nevada and Utah Territories 1862 (Jul-Dec); US Army Operations in Nevada and Utah Territories 1863 (Jan-Mar); US Army Operations in Nevada and Utah Territories 1863 (Apr-Jun); US Army Operations in Nevada and Utah Territories 1863 (Jul-Dec); US Army Operations in Nevada and Utah Territories 1864 (Jan-Jun); US Army Operations in Nevada and Utah Territories 1864 (Jul-Dec); US Army Operations in Nevada 1865 (Jan-Jun); US Army Operations in Nevada 1865 (Jul-Dec) [From the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series I, vol. 50, Parts 1 & 2]

Zoeth Skinner Eldredge, The Comstock Lode [excerpt from Eldredge's History of California vol. 4 (1915)]

Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Rogue River Indian Wars 1851-1858 [excerpt from Bancroft's History of Oregon vol. 2 (1890)]

Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Snake River Indian Wars 1858-1873 [excerpt from Bancroft's History of Oregon vol. 2 (1890)]

Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Modoc Indian Wars 1864-1873 [excerpt from Bancroft's History of Oregon vol. 2 (1890)]

Theodore H. Hittell, The Modoc Indian War 1873 [excerpt from Hittell's History of California vol. 3 (1897)]

"On the first of April a large column of smoke was seen rising from the vicinity, and the supposition is the station was that day attacked by the Indians. The walls of the house occupied by the men were built from thick pieces of sod. They had made ten loopholes for their rifles on the side attacked. The attack was made from a stone corral about thirty paces off, in front of the house. (To the east and lower than the house.) The whole front of the corral is bespattered with lead of the bullets fired from the house. By appearances the fight is supposed to have lasted about half a day. Curry was killed by a shot through a loophole — a body in the house having been recognized by persons acquainted with him. The legs from below the knees were missing."

Asa M. Fairfield, Indian Troubles in Northwestern Nevada [From Asa Merrill Fairfield, Pioneer History of Lassen County (1916)] 1848-59;  1860;  1861-64;  1865-67;  1868-69

Grace Greenwood, A Visit to Nevada in 1871 [From Grace Greenwood, New Life in New Lands: Notes of Travel (1873)]

Facts About Goldfield; The Greatest Mining Camp in the World (1904)

John D. Hoff, Tenderfoot and expert; a true story and experience of a tenderfoot at Goldfield and Tonopah (1905)

Clifton Johnson, A Visit to the Comstock Lode in 1908 [From Clifton Johnson, Highways and Byways of California, with excursions into Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Idaho (1908)]

Ralph D. Paine, An Adventurous Trip on the Bullfrog-Las Vegas Stage [From Ralph D. Paine, Roads of Adventure (1922)]