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Bill Dolan writes the last article of the year on Carson City's history, about Carson resident Yee Bong who ran a cafe in Chinatown. And he ends on a note that makes it sound like this feature won't be coming back next year. He says "This column may appear from time to time as space and interest allows," but I think we all know that when it comes to covering history, newspapers have precious little of either.

Today the Appeal has an article on the Keeley Institute in Carson City, which was a branch of a nationwide chain that promised to cure alcoholism by injecting mystery chemicals into your body. There's also a look ahead to next week's Victorian Christmas Tour, where several west side historic homes open their doors to visitors. The tour is Sunday, Dec. 14 from noon to 5 p.m. Tickets can be had at the Foreman-Roberts House Museum and other locations for $12.

Sue Ballew today brings us the story of Nevada's seventh governor, Roswell K. Colcord, and the house he lived in, which still stands on Carson's west side. In the days before the official Governor's Mansion was built, whatever house the governor was living in became the "Governor's" "mansion", so this house held the title for the four years Colcord was in office.

Sue Ballew has the story of the Financial Panic of 1907, and how banks in Carson City were affected.

This week we have two stories about Carson City's history, one on the town of Empire, which used to sit on the banks of the Carson River where the Empire Ranch golf course is now. Carson City eventually grew and swallowed the town whole.

There's also a story that's technically part of the paper's Business coverage, but it has a fair amount of history so it counts. Nugget has long history in Carson City is the story of the Carson Nugget in downtown Carson, and all the growth it's gone through over the decades.

Also there's the story that slipped through my fingers last week, about Kings Canyon, and the history of what used to be the best road up to Lake Tahoe, before Kingsbury and Spooner were built.

There were two Carson City history articles today. One from Trent Dolan concerns Samuel Post Davis, editor of the Appeal in the late 1800s, and the stories he would write about the fictional Wabuska Mangler newspaper in faraway Wabuska.

The other story from Guy Rocha tries to clear up some of the myths about why Nevada because a state back in 1864. Abraham Lincoln pushed Nevada's statehood through just one week before the presidential election in 1864 not because he needed silver from Nevada's mines to finance the Civil War, but basically because he wanted a few more votes to clinch the election.

Trent Dolan this week wrote about several topics that were in an 1886 edition of the Morning Appeal. The Washoe Zephyr, the anti-Chinese movement, and the Ormsby County poor farm.

Today Trent Dolan has a story about Hank Monk, the stagecoach driver from the 1870s. Hank drove stage between Carson City, Genoa, Virginia City, Lake Tahoe, and Placerville.

Also, Guy Rocha writes about the history of Nevada Day, and its many moveable dates, asking, "Is there anything traditional about Nevada Day?"

Trent Dolan has the story of the great prison escape of 1871, where 29 inmates broke out of the Nevada State Prison and fanned out into the surrounding hills. Many of them were never caught.

In the same article is the story of Frank Denver, who was lieutenant governor of Nevada at the time, and back then the lieutenant governor also served as the warden of the prison. After the escape, the state legislature in 1873 decided to take the warden's job away from the lieutenant governor and give it to someone qualified, to be appointed by the governor. Frank Denver didn't go quietly, and the National Guard had to be dispatched to remove him from his post.

Even though the Nevada Appeal posts all of its stories to its website, there is still some information that slips through the cracks. Like in this article about the Grimes Castle haunted house, which was in Sunday's paper, on page C1. If you read the story online, you may be wondering one important fact: where is it located?

It seems that the story's sidebar, which appeared in the print version, never made it to the website. So online readers don't know that the address is at 3579 Highway 50 East, #113. Or the hours of operation, which are 7-10 p.m. on the following days: Oct. 17-19; Oct. 24-­26; and Oct. 30-Nov. 2. Or the phone number of (775)220-5031, and the two websites, www.grimescas­tle.com or www.myspace.com/grimescastle.

So with more people reading the newspaper solely through the website, and online ad revenues that hopefully will be increasing, shouldn't the Appeal be putting more focus on making sure that online version closely echoes the print version? That online viewers are being left out?