Nevada: The beautiful desert of buried hopes
Mining had given rise to Nevada in the early years. But many mines had gone from boom to bust in the time before WWI. When the U.S. declared war on the German Empire, Nevada's future brightened.
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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