Mark Twain's Partner

Michael J. Phillips

Sprache: English

Genres: Geschichte Humor Modern (19. Jh.)Sachbücher Sozialwissenschaft (Kultur & Anthropologie)

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1. Introduction
2. A Story Never Fully Told
3. With the Pony Express
4. A Snow Prison
5. Inland Seas Left by Floods
6. The Turn of the Tide
7. A Persistent Visitor
8. What Bothered Sam
9. From Flapjacks to Flapjacks
10. A Fortune Lost by Default
11. The Life of the Party
12. First Attempt at Literature
13. Mark as a Mine Foreman
14. A Private Holdup
15. The Aurora Boom Collapses
16. Higbie Seeks a Publisher

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In 1861, a 26-year-old Sam Clemens "went west" with his older brother Orion. By that time he'd had some experience with publishing his thoughts in local newspapers and was beginning to collect and tell stories. Orion sent him to work a silver mine that he and Calvin Higbie owned. This Saturday Evening Post article, dated September 11, 1920, paints a vivid picture of the young, soon-to-be-famous author, through the eyes of his new friend and fellow silver miner, Higbie. - Summary by John Greenman