Editing Comstock Lode (section)

===Writers and artists===
While most who worked the mines did not gain great fortune, a number went on to be notable in their own right in the area of writing.

The [[Sagebrush School]] of journalists and writers arose out of the ''[[Territorial Enterprise]]'' and other newspapers in Virginia City. A young William Wright and Samuel Clemens both tried their hands at mining at Comstock; not prospering at this, they landed jobs at the ''Territorial Enterprise'' where they began writing under the pen names [[Dan De Quille]] and [[Mark Twain]]. The poet and politician [[John Brayshaw Kaye]], also worked in the mine for a short period in the 19th century.<ref name=mag>{{Cite journal |title=John Brayshaw Kaye |date=April 1890 |journal=[[The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review]] |location=Buffalo, New York |publisher=[[Charles Wells Moulton]] |volume=2 |issue=2 |page=227 |url={{Google books|EdgKAAAAYAAJ|John Brayshaw Kaye|page=227|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref>

In 1939 the arts section of the [[Federal Works Agency]] invited California artist [[Ejnar Hansen (painter)|Ejnar Hansen]] to create a mural for the newly completed post office building in [[Lovelock, Nevada]], as part of the New Deal program. After a visit to the former mining town, Hansen chose the discovery of the lode as a suitable local subject, treating it in the style of modified realism favored by the Agency. Once his canvas was installed over an interior doorway, it was widely admired for its authenticity, especially by miners and prospectors with experience of the desert locale.<ref>National Register of Historic Places, [https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/326fad09-a59e-4b0b-a0aa-1a21c270574f section 8]</ref>