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“I had been a private secretary, a silver miner and a silver mill operative, and amounted to less than nothing in each, and now–What to do next? I yielded to Higbie’s appeals and consented to try the mining once more.”

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Outdoors

by Staff October 13, 2010

“I learned then that Jim Blaine’s peculiarity was that whenever he reached a certain stage of intoxication, no human power could keep him from setting out, with impressive unction, to tell about a wonderful adventure which he had once had with his grandfather’s old ram.”

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Nightlife

by Staff October 13, 2010

“At night, by the camp-fire, we played euchre and seven-up to strengthen the mind—and played them with cards so greasy and defaced that only a whole summer’s acquaintance with them could enable the student to tell the ace of clubs from the jack of diamonds.”

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Casinos & Gambling

by Staff October 13, 2010

“Slade was captured, once, by a party of men who intended to lynch him. … When [Slade’s wife] arrived they let her in without searching her, and before the door could be closed she whipped out a couple of revolvers, and she and her lord marched forth defying the party.”

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Personalities

by Staff October 13, 2010

“Slade was a matchless marksman with a navy revolver. The legends say that one morning at Rocky Ridge, when he was feeling comfortable, he saw a man approaching who had offended him some days before … ‘Gentlemen,’ said Slade, drawing, ‘it is a good twenty-yard shot—I’ll clip the third button on his coat!’ Which he did.”

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Independents

by Staff October 13, 2010

“One assayer got such rich results out of all specimens brought to him that in time he acquired almost a monopoly of the business. But like all men who achieve success, he became an object of envy and suspicion.”

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Goods & Services

by Staff October 13, 2010

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Editors’ choice

by D. Brian Burghart October 13, 2010

“I had made of myself a tolerable printer, under the impression that I would be another Franklin some day, but somehow had missed the connection thus far.”

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Culture

by Staff October 13, 2010

“There were sights to be seen [in the Washoe Zephyr] which were not wholly uninteresting to new comers; for the vast dust cloud was thickly freckled with things strange to the upper air—hats, chickens and parasols sailing in the remote heavens; blankets, tin signs, sage-brush and shingles a shade lower; door-mats and buffalo robes lower still; shovels and coal scuttles on the next grade; glass doors, cats and little children on the next; disrupted lumber yards, light buggies and wheelbarrows on the next; and down only thirty or forty feet above ground was a scurrying storm of emigrating roofs and vacant lots.”

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Kids & family

by Staff October 13, 2010

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Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada, 2010

by Staff October 13, 2010

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Editors’ choice

by Staff October 15, 2009

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Culture

by Staff October 15, 2009

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