Samuel Post Davis

Samuel Post Davis (April 4, 1850 – March 17, 1918) was an American journalist, politician, and historian. Although primarily a journalist, Davis also wrote poetry, plays, short stories, and humorous sketches. A humorist, he was one of the writers from Nevada associated with the Sagebrush School.

He was born in Branford, Connecticut. With his Episcopalian priest father, Davis moved to New Jersey, and Wisconsin. His early journalism jobs were in Nebraska, Missouri, and Chicago. He moved to California with his father in 1872, and three years later Davis moved to Virginia City, Nevada.

Davis and his wife had two daughters.

Partial works Short Stories (1886) The Prince of Timbuctoo (1905) History of Nevada (1913) The First Piano in Camp ... A story. With an appreciation by Sam C. Dunham. With drawings by H. Fisk, etc. (1919)