Mining Newsletter Writer

Mark Twain famously lived, and wrote for the newspaper in, Virginia City, at the time known as the “richest place on earth.” It is but a tiny tourist destination these days, an out of the way place to see on the way to or from Lake Tahoe.

In his new book “How Not To Get Rich: The Financial Misfortunes of Mark Twain” author Alan Pell Crawford quotes Virginia City historian Warren Hinckle, who wrote, “So fabulous were the fortunes produced and the manner of spending and squandering so superlati...