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Earle Clemens collection (Mark Twain's nephew)

Currency:USD Category:Western Americana Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 400.00 USD
Earle Clemens collection (Mark Twain's nephew)
1909-1910. Lot of five. Two Bullfrog Bank & trust deposits. Two Bullfrog Bank & Trust pay to the order of. One Tonopah Banking Corporation. Clemens began the Pioneer Press at the Herald plant in Rhyolite on 18 February 1909. The Pioneer was a four page Saturday issue weekly that was the rival of Theodore Lowe's Pioneer Papers which ran a Wednesday issue weekly. Both were in competition for the mining camp of Pioneer, NV. The papers and the camp both went belly up by July.

State: NV
City: Rhyolite
County: Nye

Date: 1909-1910