| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Territorial Enterprise Historical and Educational Foundation |
| Founder(s) | William Jernegan and Alfred James |
| Founded | December 18, 1858 |
| Language | English |
| Ceased publication | January 16, 1893 |
| Headquarters | Virginia City, Nevada |
| Country | United States |
| Website | www.territorial- enterprise.com |
The Territorial Enterprise, founded by William Jernegan and Alfred James on 18 December 1858, was a newspaper published in Virginia City, Nevada. Published for its first two years in Genoa in what was then Utah Territory, new owners Jonathan Williams and J. B. Woolard moved the paper to Carson City, the capital of the territory, in 1859.[1] The paper changed hands again the next year; Joseph T. Goodman and Denis E. McCarthy moved it again, this time to Virginia City, in 1860.[1][2]
Noted author Mark Twain wrote for the paper during the 1860s along with writer Dan DeQuille. To cover for DeQuille, who took time off to visit his family in Iowa, the young Sam Clemens was hired. Located steps from the Enterprise offices, Mark Twain and Dan DeQuille, lifelong friends, shared a room at 25 North B St. in Virginia City.
The paper was owned and operated by the Blake family in the 1890s through the 1920s.
The paper went out of publication for a while and was revived by Helen Crawford Dorst in 1946 and was later purchased and revived by author, journalist, and railroad historian Lucius Beebe and his long-time companion and co-author Charles Clegg on 2 May 1952.[3] Clegg and Beebe sold the Territorial Enterprise in 1961.[4]
- ^ a b Lee, James Melvin (1917). . .
- ^ Territorial Enterprise On-Line Nevada Web site (http://onlinenevada.org/territorial_enterprise), Retrieved 9-24-2011.
- ^ Territorial Enterprise and Virginia City News, Volume 98, No. 18 (Friday, May 2, 1952). It was priced at 15 cents a copy. The front page stories included the successful Virginia City Art Week, an article on the notables who would be writing for the paper, and a piece about Virginia City in the 1870s.
- ^ "Territorial Enterprise Building," National Park Service Web site (http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/nevada/ter.htm), Retrieved 9-24-2011.