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California Mining Town Newspapers, 1850-1880 (1954) (112 pages)

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INTRODUCTION and even after gold had ceased to be the backbone of the communities it had built, the ink still flowed in quantity. The rattle and bang of the presses continued to shake the floors of the buildings long after the mines had lost their lure. Some of these local sheets that had their beginnings among the Long Toms and Rockers grew to maturity through the era of the Monitors and are still being published a century later. In the columns of these early newspapers were advocated mining and land reforms that were later written into California law. Political views, especially during the days of the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the Civil War, saw newspapers established and opinions expressed that sometimes sent the editors to jail. Many an argonaut who had served his apprenticeship in the East found his way to the gold rush towns, there to lend his skill to the make-up of the local sheet. Enos Christman, the Philadelphia printer, came west in 1850, and had the honor of issuing the first edition of the Sonora Herald, Warren B. Ewer, John Rollin Ridge, who started Murietta on the road to fame, James Coffroth, Prentice Mulford and many others contributed their share to the literary excellence of these local publications. Thus we find in the columns of California’s early mining press an evidence of culture that the rough and ready times belied. The crucial years of the early 1860s were Xi