From the Publisher
I could not be more excited to be publishing the resurrected Territorial Enterprise. As publisher of The Missouri Times, our team has developed a passion for sharing information about politics and...
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Reaching a daily circulation of more than 15,000 copies at its peak in the 1860s, the Territorial Enterprise (TE) was once the largest newspaper west of the Mississippi. Even as the mining boom died...
View ArticleNevada’s Current Public Records Law
BY ELIZABETH THOMPSON Nevada’s open records law says it exists in order “to foster democratic principles” and “must be construed liberally” and that “any exemption, exception or balancing of interests...
View ArticleLetter from the Editor: April 2015
The days since our March 12 launch have been happy, hectic and sometimes harried as we’ve endeavored to answer inquiries, thank the dozens of Twain enthusiasts from around the country who wrote to tell...
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Mark Twain as a Gold-Digger
How the Celebrated Humorist Came to Write “The Jumping Frog” [excerpt from The Sunday Herald, Washington, D.C., April 26, 1885] The portion of the pocket-miner among the other inhabitants of a mining...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: Washoe Canary
April 9, 1865 Dear Editor, The Virginia City Chapter of the Comstock Audubon Society hereby announces it’s annual pursuit and solemnization. This year, as in all past annums, the objective of our...
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AN INDISPENSIBLE MAN ON THE COMSTOCK
By Jack Harpster As a seventeen-year-old living in the bucolic Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, Duane Leroy Bliss had been bitten by the gold bug. It was 1850, and two prior stints as a...
View ArticleFREE WI-FI ON THE COMSTOCK
VIRGINIA CITY, Nev. – While Virginia City remains true blue to its 1850s heritage, visitors can now connect with the past via free Wi-Fi. The new “VC Visitor” access provides free 24-hour access with a...
View ArticleDid you know? County Factoids
Humboldt County was designated as a county in 1856 by the Utah Territorial Legislature and again in 1861 by the new Nevada Legislature. Lyon County is Nevada’s third most populous county. It was one of...
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