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Mark Twain, Richard F. Burton and Horace Greeley all wrote about their respective journeys to Carson City, Nevada Territory. Greeley in 1859, Burton in 1860, and Twain in 1861. This site provides their commentary on the country. You decide about greatness. twainsgeography.com/epoch/sam-cl...

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Following the end of his career as a Mississippi River Boat pilot, Sam Clemens headed for Carson City, with his elder brother, Orion. He expected to "go about of an afternoon when his work was done, and pick up two or three pailfuls of shining slugs, and nuggets of gold and silver on the hillside.

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#MarkTwain Cairo, IL is the most visited location on Twain's Geography. Significant in both Twain's fiction and his life on the river, it was also visited by the likes of Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, and RW Emerson. twainsgeography.com/location/cai...

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#MarkTwain Most references I've found state that Sam took the "Nebraska" to Missouri just prior to a Union blockade of the Mississippi River. Reports are that this in unlikely and that we do not know how he got to Missouri. twainsgeography.com/episode/last...

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Sam Clemens’s anti-imperialist commitments never kept him from reading and praising Kipling’s works. Clemens explained Kipling’s reactionary views as the result of “his training that makes him cling to his early beliefs; then he loves power & authority & Kingship” twainsgeography.com/page/mark-tw...

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Jill Lepore on the origin of the Electoral College magawhen.com/chapter/elec...

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Sam, as a cub pilot on the Steamboat Pennsylvania, had arranged for his younger brother, Henry, to serve as a “mud clerk”. The pilot, William Brown went after Henry with a big chunk of coal and Sam stepped in “stretched him out” with a heavy stool. twainsgeography.com/episode/retu...

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Christopher Columbus was a megalomaniac who managed to create a major point in history and geography but didn't even know where he was. His actions instigated the destruction of cultures spanning a continent. But we do get a paid day-off from work. magawhen.com/major_period...

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“To the Person Sitting in Darkness”, a scathing indictment of Colonialism. Rev. Ament, not mentioned by name, became a focus for repercussions for atrocities committed in the name of Christianity and generated much of the controversy surrounding the article. twainsgeography.com/chapter/rev-...

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In my search for the time when America was great, I'm still at a pre-revolutionary war period. Britain was nearly bankrupt from the seven years war, so they increased taxes on the colonies. Some people didn't like this , so ... magawhen.com/chapter/taxa...

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February 16, 1857: Monday– Sam boarded the packet Paul Jones (353 tons), on its way from Pittsburgh, for passage to New Orleans,...Sam claimed in his autobiography that his intention was to travel to the Amazon, but could not find passage once in New Orleans. twainsgeography.com/episode/boar...

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On 16 February 1857 Clemens took passage for New Orleans on the packet Paul Jones. .... During daylight watches he began “doing a lot of steering” for Horace E. Bixby, pilot of the Paul Jones, whose sore foot made standing at the wheel painful. twainsgeography.com/epoch/sam-cl...

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Sam Clemens' restlessness took him from St. Louis to New York. Five days by steamboat, stagecoach, railroads, the Lake Erie palace "Southern Michigan" and Hudson River's "Isaac Newton". twainsgeography.com/episode/st-l...

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St. Louis in 1853 was a burgeoning city of 100,000 souls, the largest city of the West. The city offered Western freedom together with many of the luxuries and affectations of the East. For a young man from Hannibal, such a city must have been dazzling. twainsgeography.com/episode/st-l...

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I recorded this about ten years ago, just to see if I could. librivox.org/the-innocent...

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@askhistorians.bsky.social I have become intrigued by the apparent commonality of today's populism with that of Andrew Jacksons' presidential terms, when populism first became a significant factor in a presidential election. I'm looking for sources that explore this commonality.

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Recently delving into American history I'm struck by the apparent similarities between Trump and Andrew Jackson.

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Sometime in 1854: “I went back to the Mississippi Valley, sitting upright in the smoking-car two or three days and nights. When I reached St. Louis I was exhausted. " The problem is that there were no railroads to speak of in St. Louis in 1854. twainsgeography.com/episode/retu...

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Summer of 1843: The first year of Sam’s long summer visits to the Quarles Farm. The Quarles had eight children and about thirty slaves. These idyllic summers were grist for many of Sam’s later stories. twainsgeography.com/location/qua...

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Mark Twain's Birth Place: twainsgeography.com/location/flo...

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Here's the first major section of Twain's Geography, my own project. Mark Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, a slave state. twainsgeography.com/epoch/hannib...

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Just a note to introduce myself, I'm a Mark Twain aficionado with an academic background in geography. I'm also a Drupal web site developer.

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