The Argonaut

Under Pixley's stewardship it was considered "the leading literary production of the San Francisco press and was a powerful influence in State and municipal politics.

Many 19th-century writers such as Ambrose Bierce, Yda Addis, Emma Frances Dawson, and Gertrude Atherton appeared regularly in its pages.

Pixley, who served as The Argonaut's editor and publisher, had been California's eighth attorney general when Stanford was governor.

The journal was founded as a counterweight to Denis Kearney, an Irish-born labor leader who represented many of the Irish immigrants who worked for the railroad.

[10] In the early 1990s, Warren Hinckle launched a print publication titled The Argonaut, and an online version called Argonaut360.