Before Las Vegas, there was Searchlight
'Quintus Hopper of Nevada' series: Before Las Vegas even became a town, the mining town Searchlight burst into existence - before long, the southern tip of Nevada was called the Golden Triangle.
Quintus Hopper of Nevada, published in January 2022, is a historical novel that follows the epic and peculiar life of a frontier newspaper typesetter. As part of my research I made extensive use of newspaper archives and, in this series, I’ll share some of my often surprising findings. Here are history, commentaries and contemporary newspaper articles a…
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