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''The Golden Era'' was a 19th-century
''The Golden Era'' began in 1852 as a weekly founded by Rollin M. 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 editor 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".
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''The Golden Era'' was a 19th-century San Francisco
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newspaper
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. The publication featured the writing of f.e.g. Mark Twain
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, Bret Harte
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, Charles Warren Stoddard
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(writing at first as "Pip Pepperpod"), Fitz Hugh Ludlow
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, Adah Isaacs Menken
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, Ada Clare
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, Prentice Mulford
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, Dan De Quille
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, J. S. Hittell and some women such as Frances Fuller Victor
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. Stoddard recalled the newspaper as "the chief literary organ west of the Rocky Mountains".Tarnoff, Ben. ''The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature''. New York: The Penguin Press, 2014: 40.
History
''The Golden Era'' began in 1852 as a weekly founded by Rollin M. 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 editor 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
Charles Henry Webb (January 24, 1834 – May 24, 1905) was an American poet, author and journalist. He was particularly known for his parodies and humorous writings.
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Webb was born at Rouse's Point, New York in 1834.
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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.
Harr Wagner bought the weekly in 1882. In January 1886, Wagner changed to monthly publication, and hired Joaquin Miller
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as editor. Wagner married poet Madge Morris who was already a contributor, and her contributions became more numerous. In 1887, Wagner moved the periodical to San Diego, California
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—city officials enticed him with a $5,000 subsidy.
The office for ''The Golden Era'' was located initially in the Golden Era Building
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on 742 Montgomery Street from 1852 until 1854; and later on Clay Street.
References
* Gleen E. Humpreys, The Golden Era, American Literary Magazines, 1986External links
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California Legacy Project
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