Second Directory of Nevada Territory; Embracing a General Directory of Residents of All the Principal towns; Business Directory of Advertisers; Quartz Mills, Reduction Works, Toll Roads, Etc. And Principal Mining Laws of Different Districts; with the Residents and Principal Mines, Mills, Etc. of the Reese River Region

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Published by Kelly, 1863

Kelly / 1863 / Second Directory of Nevada Territory; Embracing a General Directory of Residents of All the Principal towns; Business Directory of Advertisers; Quartz Mills, Reduction Works, Toll Roads, Etc. And Principal Mining Laws of Different Districts; with the Residents and Principal Mines, Mills, Etc. of the Reese River Region (Safe 3, 94033) Octavo. Original leather-backed printed boards. Leather at joints cracking (but covers still attached). Small tear to leather at head of spine. Boards worn, with soiling and staining. A few gatherings slightly sprung. Previous owner's name on free endpaper, with older ownership name on verso of same sheet; some pencil underscoring and marginalia, otherwise clean internally. xlii, [4], xliii-xliv, [4], viii, 486 pages. Complete, with 51 pages of ads at front and more interspersed in the volume, many on colored paper. Overall a solid good copy of this rare directory. Very Rare Early Nevada Directory Samuel Clemens Listed as "local editor" of Territorial Enterprise An important historical source for early Nevada, one of the earliest directories for the Territory, issued just a couple of years after the discovery of the Comstock Lode sparked a Nevada "silver rush." This directory lists approximately 9000 residents of Nevada, twice the number of the first directory issued by Kelly the previous year. The mining camp of Austin appears here for the first time. The volume includes general directories for Aurora, Austin, Carson City, Clifton, Dayton, Empire City, Genoa, Gold Hill, Jacobsville, Palmyra and Como, Silver City, Virginia City, Walker River and Washoe County. Despite the Virginia City imprint, this directory was actually printed by the San Francisco printers Valentine & Co. Samuel Clemens and the Territorial Enterprise Of particular note in the present Nevada directory is the entry for Samuel Clemens, on page 183, who is listed herein as "local editor" of the Territorial Enterprise. In February 1862 Clemens began contributing occasional letters to the Virginia City paper. By the fall of the same year he was offered twenty-five dollars a week to become the local city editor of the paper, which he accepted. The first instance in print where Samuel Clemens employed his renowned pen name, Mark Twain, was in an article published on February 3, 1863, in the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada. He signed the piece using the now familiar pseudonym "Mark Twain," derived from a Mississippi River term meaning two fathoms (12 feet) deep, indicating safe water for steamboats. These early Nevada newspaper days marked the beginning of his prolific career under the enduring and iconic name that would become synonymous with his wit, humor, and literary contributions. Orion Clemens, Twain's brother, is also listed herein (on page 97), as Acting Governor, and Secretary of Nevada Territory. Mormon History in Nevada This rare directory is listed in Chad Flake's Mormon Bibliography because it includes an account of the Mormons in Nevada (within the larger Historical Sketch), beginning on page 34: The whole of Utah, prior to its acquisition by the United States, was a portion of the Mexican Department of Alta California, and as such contained scarce any white population at that day. The first settlement made within its limits.was that of the Mormons at Salt Lake. Portions of this people passing back and forth between California and Salt Lake, so early as eighteen hundred and forty-eight, being attracted by the fine lands in Carson Valley and vicinity, stopped, and making homes there, became the pioneer settlers, also, of what is now Nevada Territory. In these remote and quiet valleys, undisturbed by the mandates of the chu. Seller Inventory # 94033

Bibliographic Details

Title: Second Directory of Nevada Territory; ...
Publisher: Kelly
Publication Date: 1863
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Book Type: Book