Nevada Territory

And U.S. federal diplomats, really.

So there was a treaty convention that was actually held in 1863 in response to the rise of mining across the Intermountain West in what was then the Nevada Territory and the corresponding violence that was taking place between indigenous communities and prospectors.

And so this treaty, it was incumbent upon the federal government to sign an agreement with the Shoshones because they knew that the Shoshones had authority over the land.

which they were demonstrating by strategically deploying violence against these prospectors, these newcomers.

There's an old Injun way, Carrie, and I got the man who's gonna lead us over it.

We make it, we're gonna get lost eventually in Nevada Territory, and when we do, there ain't nobody, not even your pappy, is gonna find us there.

Where do I meet you? When? And what do I bring?

Well, you be ready from herein.

Arrival by the overland stage of two Missouri girls who had come unescorted all the way through.

They are going to Nevada Territory to join their father.

They are pretty, but merciful heavens, how they throw the meat and potatoes down their throats.

"This is the first square meal we've had since we left Rocky Thompson's," said the eldest.

When Molly Clemens died in 1904, having outlived her husband about seven years, there was found among her effects an old note-book which she began in 1862, while she was in Keokuk, waiting for Orion to send for her.

Orion, it will be seen, had the year before been appointed secretary of Nevada territory, that his sudden rise from the position of an obscure country-town lawyer to that of a man prominently engaged in state-building should have prompted her to jot down a bit of family history, is entirely excusable.

The notebook is interesting not only for the sketch of Orion's career, with the steps leading up to his appointment, but also for its references to Sam Clemens, who accompanied Orion, and for whom the Western trip proved the threshold for a literary career.

Except for minor changes to ensure clearness, the entries are rendered as found.

In May, Orion concluded to go to Memphis, Missouri, to practice law.

I will say he was admitted to the bar in Jamestown, Tennessee, examined by Judge Goodall.

he moved his family over in august eighteen sixty in january eighteen sixty one he went to st louis to see judge edward bates who had accepted an appointment in abraham lincoln's cabinet as attorney general mr clemens was successful he received the appointment of secretary of nevada territory a new territory organized in the session of eighteen sixty and sixty one mr clemens received a notice of his appointment on the twenty seventh of march received his papers on the twentieth of april we then left memphis on the twenty sixth reached keokuk again on the twenty seventh mister c started to st louis that night he left keokuk on the fourth of july to visit his sister p a moffett in st louis there he met and prevailed on his brother sam to go to his new home with him They left St. Louis on the 18th of July on the Sioux City for St. Joe.

There they took passage in the Overland Coach, a mail conveyance which began to run daily between St. Joe, Missouri and Sacramento, California.