The Golden Era was a nineteenth century San Francisco newspaper that featured the writing of Mark Twain, Joaquin Miller, Bret Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard and Fitz Hugh Ludlow. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30 1835 – April 21 1910 better known by the Pen name Mark Twain, was an American Humorist, satirist Joaquin Miller was the Pen name of the colorful American poet essayist and fabulist Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner Miller ( March 10, Bret Harte ( August 25, 1836 &ndash May 6, 1902) was an American Author and Poet, best remembered for his accounts Charles Warren Stoddard ( 7 August 1843, Rochester, New York – 23 April 1909, Monterey, California Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as “Fitzhugh Ludlow” ( September 11, 1836 &ndash September 12, 1870) was an American author journalist