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From the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas... The first issue published...
From the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas... The first issue published...
Item # 705161
January 10, 1874
FOOT-HILL WEEKLY TIDINGS, Grass Valley, California, Jan. 10, 1874 This town in Northern California was formally named "Boston Ravine" and then "Centerville". It began as a mining town, situated at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range in Northeastern Calif.
This is the volume 1, number 1 issue.
Articles include: "Quartz Mining as a Business" "Mark Twain Introduces Himself to a London Audience" "Explanatory" being the publisher's justification for printing the newspaper; "Foot-hills vs. Pigeon Point" "Our Mines, Great & Small" and much more.
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed, various margin tears and light foxing as it typical of a first issue, generally good.
Category: The Old West
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