Once settled in our Carson City Casino camp we connected with long time Internet pen pal Dan Harton and his wife Sue. Their hospitality was first rate with the treat of the visit being a day in Virginia City.
Virginia City has retained its 1800’s true western flavor, right down to the rough wooden boardwalks. The stores hold to the old architecture and motifs with magnificent wood furniture and Tiffany lamps everywhere. The local citizens, armed to the tooth and wandering the streets, are no exception as you can see from the accompanying pictures.
As we discovered, Mark Twain spent some of his formative writing years there in the newspaper business and refining his writing style. It turns out Don Harton is quite an expert on Mark Twain and his stories and historical accounts of Twain’s 6 years out west were revealing to us.
