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Virginia and Truckee
$13.42
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The year 1896 saw the completion of the first transcontinental railroad and the birth of the Virginia & Truckee. While Central Pacific and Union Pacific approached their historic junction in Utah, another chapter in the railroading history of the American West was unfolding in Nevada.
Modest only in length, the V & T was a short-line carrier of incredible treasure, taking out the ore of the Comstock Lode, the world's richest known silver deposit, It also delivered necessities and devisings of luxury for booming Virginia City, cosmopolis of the Comstock. The precipitous grades were thought unsafe for risking private cars but with the arrival in Virginia City of the celebrated car "Pullman" with its designer aboard, others soon followed, bering such notables as President Grant and General Sherman. The Carson & Colorado was built in the 1880's as a subsidiary line to connect with the new boom towns of Hawthorne, Candelaria, Bodie, Aurora, and Benton. The strikes at Tonopah and Goldfield were yet to come. "After the epic convulsions of the nineteenth century the V & T enjoyed briefly the heady excitements of the southern nevada bonanzas as long as they lasted." The Second World War enabled the V & T, like many another short line, to live a while longer on borrowed time. Here is its flamboyant history in words, maps, and contemporary drawings and photographs.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Virginia & Truckee: a story of Virginia City and Comstock times
By Lucius Morris Beebe, Charles Clegg, E. S. Hammack, Frederic Shaw
Published by G. H. Hardy, 1949
Original from the University of California
Digitized Apr 18, 2007
58 pages
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Comstock Commotion
$15.40
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It is more than 95 years since The Territorial Enterprise first appeared as a single sheet printed by hand press in the howling wilderness that was to become the state of Nevada. Archetype of the frontier newspaper, The Enterprise today carries on the uninhibited character and disregard of journalistic convention that marked its beginnings. Its story is part of the romantic chronicle of the Old West.
Founded at Mormon Station in 1858, the Enterprise next year packed up its editors, type cases, and imposing stone to follow the rush to Virginia City, where the bonanzas of the Comstock Lode had just been uncovered. Amid the low tumults and gaudy uproars of Virginia City, the frock-coated editors of The Enterprise proved as dexterous in formal duels as they were with type stick and whisky bottle. Between advertisements of fancy coffins and huzzas or boos for touring actresses, its columns conveyed the often outrageous history of a nation marching toward Manifest Destiny. The fame of an early reporter on its staff who signed his stories "Mark Twain" lent it a literary glamour it has never relinquished.
The Enterprise is still a name to stir the pulse. Its editorial page is quoted from the New York Herald Tribune to the Portland Oregonian. It is now owned and edited by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg -- praised by Stewart Holbrook as "Nevada's peerless ambassadors to less favored parts of the world." Here Mr. Beebe gives the story of The Enterprise in florid, gee-whiz style reminiscent of bonanza times and no less appropriate today.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Comstock commotion: the story of the Territorial enterprise and Virginia City news
By Lucius Morris Beebe
Published by Stanford University Press, 1954
Original from the University of California
Digitized Jun 25, 2007
129 pages
Mark Twain's Western Years
$18.55
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Before coming West in 1861 Mark Twain had served two apprenticeships -- as a printer and as a pilot on the Mississippi. But it was after coming to Nevada that he began his career as a writer, to emerge five and one-half years later a literary figure with a national reputation.
From the time he joined the staff of the Territorial Enterprise, after having spent a year as a silver miner, his development was continuous. He grew into more than humorist. he became an accomplished social satirist, and with a gradually broadening scope wrote artistically with a variety of effects, from the coarsest burlesque to fine descriptive and informational articles. His Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Letters from the Sandwich Islands, written at this time, established his reputation in the East.
Mr. Benson has provided not only an interesting biographical account of Mark Twain's years in the West but also the first intensive study of his contributions to Western periodicals. He supplies new data for the evaluation of Twain's literary development and corrects some misconceptions and errors of statement on the part of his biographers and critics, including whether or not Samuel Clemens was the "original Mark Twain," the facts concerning the duel controversy, and the influence of Artemus Ward and Bret Harte on Mark Twain's writing.
Considerable Mark Twain material not heretofore reprinted is included, as well as a bibliography of his Western writings.
The author is Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Southern California.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Mark Twain's western years
By Ivan Benson, Mark Twain, Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
Published by Stanford University Press, 1938
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Mar 6, 2008
218 pages
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Contents
BEGINNINGS OF AUTHORSHIP I 1
Mark Twain , Samuel Clemens , Hannibal
IMPACT OF THE FRONTIER 21
Mark Twain , Sam Clemens , Carson City
SILVER MINER 35
Carson City , Nevada Territory , Territorial Enterprise
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