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Mark Twain at the Territorial Enterprise
From 1862 to 1865, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) wrote for Virginia City, Nevada's leading newspaper, ''Territorial Enterprise''.
==Background==
Having stumped for Abraham Lincoln's presidential bid in 1860, Orion Clemens was appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory in March 1861. Although the position carried a significant salary, it did not include any funds to relocate to Nevada. Without the funds to pay for the trip, Orion struck a deal with his brother Samuel whereby Samuel would pay for the move in exchange for a job as Orion's private secretary.
Once in Nevada, the job was unable to maintain Samuel Clemens's interest and he soon moved on to other things.〔 In February 1862, he began to send occasional letters to the major paper in the Nevada Territory, Virginia City's ''Territorial Enterprise''.〔 By July, he was asking Orion if he could assist him in finding a job as a correspondent. The ''Enterprise'' staff, led by its founding editor Joseph T. Goodman, had enjoyed Clemens's letters that he had signed as "Josh", especially one that satirized the oratory of the territory's chief justice. In the fall, he was offered twenty-five dollars a week to become the city editor of the paper, which he accepted.〔
It was during this period, on February 3, 1863, that Clemens first used his famous pen name, signing a letter complaining about a lavish party that kept him "awake for forty-eight hours" with "yours dreamily, MARK TWAIN".〔 Twain moved to San Francisco in 1864, but in 1865 got a correspondence job with the ''Territorial Enterprise'' to help cope with his financial problems. From February 1865 until March 1866 when Twain left for Hawaii, he composed five or six "San Francisco Letters" to the ''Enterprise''. Each letter consisted of about 2,000 words and Twain was paid $100 a month for the stories.
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