The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-09-27
JUDGE GOODWIN WRITES
OF NEVADA men he KNEW

A notable contribution to the literature of the West is .As I
Remember Them" by Judge c. @. Goodwin, editor of the Salt Lob
Evening Telegram, which has just been issued.
The book is a collection Of "reminiscences Of avoro soou
men, many OF them celebrated and some otherwise nnLnown -
fame, told as only Judge Goodwin can. 1t is a vivid picture of tho
life and characters of the West i'll its making and 10 laroolv s,
and anecdote. No other man has had such opportunities TO oatber
the material for this kind of a book as Judge Goodwin had s;v,r
one years ago. in 1852, when he was a young 90 ear old b.
crossed the isthmus of Panama and landed in San Francisco
Sidelights on Famous Men
Judge Goodwin was intimately acquainted with practically all
the great miners and. industrial kings in the bonanza DAVIS and in
the sketches he treats of them with a human touch which makes
the book delightfully."- interesting throughout.
While there are interesting sidelghts given of the characters
Of such famous men as d. O. Mills, Leland Stanford, c. P Hunt
jngton, William Sharon, John W. Mackay, James G. Fair "Mark
Twain" Senator w. M. Stewart and many Others of like fame.
Some of the best stories are about such obscure heroes as "Curly
Bob" big Joe" Sage Brush," Hank Monk" and other stage
drivers, Jim Gilis," a lonely prospector and others who. were it
not for Judge Goodwin, would be "unhonored and unsung." MANY
stories have been told about how Mark Twain started his career Of
writing.
Mark Twain's First Writing
Judge Goodwin was familiar with the facts at the time. and he
thus relates Thorn
with Senator :. W. Nye, wien he came from New York, came
young man named Robert Rowland. He was one of those Don't
care-a-cent' young men ready for any lark, afraid of nothing in the
world; jolly, cordial, a man for men to like at first sight and for
women to be charmed with. He and Mark Twain soon contracted
a friendship for each other, and when the news came in from Aurora,
100 miles south of Carson, of the great discoveries in that camp
these two young men formed a partnership and in some way got to
Aurora. There they bought or built a rude cabin and passed the
Winter therein. Years later Bob used to tell that in that bleak
Winter it was the wont of Mark Twain and himself to go out at
night. steal the empty fruit cans, oyster cans, empty champagne
bottles and bottles that once held booze from the rear of saloons and
boarding houses, carry and pile them up in the rear of their own
cabin to give it an opulent look, that passersby in the daylight
might say. "My but those fellows must be flush with money!"
Gas the Fourth of July drew near, Mark wrote a Fourth of
July oration, signed it Mark Twain, and sent it to the local paper
1t began with the words, i was sired by the great American Eagle
and borne by a continental dam This struck the fancy of Joseph
I. Goodman, owner and editor of the Territorial Enterprise In Vr
giDia City, and he wrote to Mark that if he was not making more
money mining than he would as local reporter on the Enterprise
he would find a place for him. A few days later, when Mr. Good
win was entertaining some friends in the sanctum, a man walked In
shod in stogie shoes, wearing Kentucky jean pants and a hickory
shirt and straw hat, all very much travel worn, and In addition had
a roll Of ancient blankets on one shoulder; dropped the blankets
and staring from one man to another, finally drawled out MY name
is Clemens That was Marks Introduction to real journalism In
Nevada"
Many Interesting Stories