Virginia City, NV

Mark Twain wrote for the newspaper here in the early part of his career.  He wrote about it in “Roughing It”

 

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Downtown

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Entrance to the Territorial Enterprise

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This poor horse was hauling people around.  The elevation is about 7,000 ft and he looked tired just standing there

 

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The Mark Twain museum oddly enough, all of the images of him are from when he was in his 60’s and 70’s.  He was in his 20’s when he lived here

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More of the Territorial Enterprise office

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More shop.  The newspaper folded in the 1890’s and was brought back in the 1960’s

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Overlooking the valley

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There are a few old graveyards dating to the 1870’s that are still in use

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Another view of the graveyard

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Old headstone