Horace Greeley crossed the plains in July 1859, looked over the ground carefully, reported favorably on the country in the Tribune, and, in good local phrase, “gave Denver the best advertisement she ever had.” The Apollo Hall theater opened in 1859, followed over the years by notables suc...
In America Brenan becomes associated with a number of journals, including Horace Greeley‘s New-York Tribune, Devin Reilly’s People, The Enquirer of Newark, New Jersey, and the New Orleans Delta in which he writes a series of papers under the pen-name Ben Fox. On August 27, 1851, he...
76; Gleasons, 85; Gormans, 86; Grahams, 90; Greens, 147; Grays, 85; Griffins, 100; there are also 70 Grants, and several of the Greeleys, which comprise the most prominent names in the letter G. The increase in this letter is 1,067 names. ...