''The Nevada Journal'' was a

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newspaper. It was the first paper published in Nevada County, and was also one of the first ever published in the mountains of the

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. Controlled by the Whigs, the first issue was published on April 19 (or 21), 1851 by Warren Baxter Ewer. During its first ten years, the editors were W.B. Ewer (1851); Henry ("Harry") A. DeCourcey and

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(1852–55); E.G. Waite (1855–56) A.A. Sargent (1856); E.G. Waite (1858); B. Bireley (1859–1861). After Ewer, the publishers were Alban & DeCourcey with A.A. Sargent (1852); Sargent & Budd, E.R. Budd (1854); N.P. Brown & Co. (1855); Waite, Brown, Skelton & Fuller Co. (1855–56); Brown, Waite & Co. (1856); Brown & Waite (1856–1858); Lockwood, Thompson & Waite (1858); Brown, Waite & Co. (1859–1861). It suspended publication in 1861, but was revived soon after and published another year and a half.

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