It was the first newspaper published in Nevada County, and one of the earliest published in the mountains of the U.S. state of California.
Controlled by the Whigs, the first issue was published on April 19 (or 21), 1851 by Warren Baxter Ewer.
Ewer (1851); Henry ("Harry") A. DeCourcey and Aaron A. Sargent (1852–55); E.G. Waite (1855–56) A.A. Sargent (1856); E.G. Waite (1858); B. Bireley (1859–1861).
[2] It suspended publication in 1861, but was revived soon after and published another year and a half.
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