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Article: Virginia City preserves late-1800s flavor yet is family-friendly
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- September 12, 2004
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VIRGINIA CITY, Nev.
'ABEAUTIFUL and ably conducted free fight came off in C street
yesterday afternoon, but as nobody was killed or mortally wounded in
a manner sufficiently fatal to cause death, no particular interest
attaches to the matter, and we shall not publish the details. We pine
for murder -- these fist fights are of no consequence to anybody."
Samuel Clemens had recently taken the nom de plume of Mark Twain
when he wrote that dispatch in January 1863 during his 22-month stint
as a young reporter here.
Things are a bit more family-friendly today down on C Street,
although you're still likely to pass a group of pretend cowboy