The Sacramento Union
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The Sacramento Union was a daily newspaper founded in 1851 in Sacramento, California. It was the oldest daily newspaper west of the Mississippi River before it closed its doors after 143 years in Janu
A building at 117-121 J Street in Old Sacramento, a reconstruction of the Sacramento Daily Union building erected in 1851.
Mark Twain, photographed in 1967, a year after his Hawaiian trip
Union writer Bret Harte in 1868
Mark Twain
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William
The Sacramento Union
…California gubernatorial election, the Union was in opposition to railroad lobbyist George Congdon Gorham, which contributed to his defeat. Humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who is better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, was the most famous contributor to the Sacramento Union, although his limited involvement in the…
Twain in 1907
Samuel Clemens, age 15 holding metal type in a composing stick that spells out his first name. As a daguerreotype, whose creation involved no intermediate negative, the image is laterally reversed. Hence the type, which, in actuality, was backward, is readable, though Twain himself is flipped.
(From l. to r.) American Civil War correspondent and author George Alfred Townsend, Mark Twain and David Gray, editor of the rival Buffalo Courier