The Golden Era

The Golden Era was a 19th-century San Francisco newspaper.

The publication featured the writing of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard (writing at first as "Pip Pepperpod"), Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Adah Isaacs Menken and Ada Clare. Stoddard recalled the newspaper as "the chief literary organ west of the Rocky Mountains".

History

The Golden Era began in 1852 as a weekly founded by Rollin Daggett and J. Macdonough Foard. In 1860 it was sold to James Brooks and Joseph E. Lawrence. In the spring of 1860, they hired Bret Harte as e ditor and he focused on making it a more literary publication. He had previously published his first poem in the Golden Era in 1857 and, in October of that same year, his first prose piece on "A Trip Up the Coast". Twain later recalled that, as an editor, Harte struck "a new and fresh and spirited note" which "rose above that orchestra's mumbling confusion and was recognizable as music".

In the 1860s, New Yorker Charles Henry Webb became the highest paid contributor to the magazine. In his regular column at the end of 1863, he announced that he and Harte "determined to start a paper" of their own. The result was the Californian, begun in May 1864, with Webb as publisher and Harte as star contributor and occasional editor. For the rest of the decade, The Golden Era and The Californian were significant rivals.

Golden Era

Golden Era may refer to:

See also

Golden Era (Del the Funky Homosapien album)

Golden Era is the ninth studio album by American hip hop artist Del the Funky Homosapien, released on April 18, 2011. It is a triple album with 34 tracks.

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