Virginia City preserves late-1800s flavor yet is family-friendly

Oakland Tribune;  September 12, 2004 ;     700+ words ......exploration today. Virginia City tours depart...the Delta and Mark Twain Saloon. The...the life of Virginia City's most famous...stop in the Mark Twain Museum in the...Missouri, but Mark Twain was born in Virginia City." Visit the...

Virginia City a bonanza for history buffs

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 21, 2004 ;     700+ words ......consequence to anybody." Virginia City, Nev. -- Samuel...nom de plume of Mark Twain when he wrote...young reporter in Virginia City. Things are a...chronicles the life of Virginia City's most famous...can stop in the Mark Twain Museum in the...Missouri, ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS INVESTIGATE MARK TWAIN'S VIRGINIA CITY

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 17, 2008 ;     468 words ......shed light on life in Virginia City during the time when Mark Twain called the place home...early 1860s, when Virginia City was first taking shape...Enterprise, taking Mark Twain as his penname. "This...the underbelly of Virginia City," said project ...

Interview: Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin discusses Mark Twain's first...

Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR);  July 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Fishkin discusses Mark Twain's first writing job with the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise...contributing to the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise...famous pen name, Mark Twain, began to earn...summer of 1862 in Virginia City. Joining us ...

Mark Twain took off humorist's hat at a hanging

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 3, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. Guy Rocha found the 1868...that the author-to-be was in Virginia City at the time of the hanging...prostitution. In its heyday, Virginia City was home to 40,000 people...in many of the saloons in Virginia City's National Historic ...

Travel Etc: Grand tours: Ah yes, that first gunfight. I remember it well...

The Independent - London;  January 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Mark Twain (1835-1910) was the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. The name comes from the call "Mark twain!" (two fathoms) used by the Mississippi riverboat men...first day in Carson City. Follow in the footsteps of Mark Twain The silver state When the Civil War put an end to ...

`Mark Twain,' premiering Monday and Tuesday nights on PBS.

The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  January 11, 2002 ;     446 words ......Langhorne Clemens, who first became Mark Twain in a Feb. 3, 1863, article he wrote for a Virginia City, Nev., newspaper, has long been a legendary...the words of biographer Ron Powers. Mark Twain is richly verbal in that respect, beginning...His work remains a cannon roar. ___ ...

MARK TWAIN IN MONTANA, JUNE 15

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 11, 2007 ;     163 words ......Beavertail Hill State Park on June 15 th for an evening with Mark Twain. In the early 1860s, en route from St. Joseph, Missouri to Carson City, Nevada, Mark Twain met and had breakfast with the notorious Virginia City desperado Bad Jack Slade. Fortunately, Slade was sober...presents ...

Wild-West Virginia City is a real bonanza

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  October 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ...VIRGINIA CITY, Nev. -- Beware of dandies...on the outskirts of town. Mark Twain recorded the raw goings...ostensibly set in and around Virginia City, debuted in 1959, it caused...executive director of the Virginia City Convention and Tourism authority...misconceptions. The ...

MARK TWAIN BANCSHARES, INC. TO ENTER SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI MARKET; TO...

PR Newswire;  July 17, 1996 ;     511 words ...ST. LOUIS, July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTWN) announced...City Bancshares, Incorporated into a Mark Twain subsidiary. The joint announcement was...Benoist, executive vice president of Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc. and president of Mark...

MARK TWAIN BANCSHARES ANNOUNCES STOCK PURCHASE PROGRAM

PR Newswire;  April 26, 1995 ;     251 words ......PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq-NNM: MTWN) today...purchase program. Under the new program, Mark Twain is authorized to purchase up to one million...represents approximately six percent of Mark Twain's currently outstanding shares. We ...

Yours truly, Mark Twain: the signature in the works.

College Literature;  March 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ...In his influential study of Mark Twain's humor, James M. Cox proposes that critical...America's - greatest comic invention, Mark Twain, a figure who would ultimately take on mythic proportions (1966, 4). The idea of Mark Twain as comic artifact and project underlies...

MARK TWAIN BANCSHARES ANNOUNCES FOURTH QUARTER DIVIDEND

PR Newswire;  October 4, 1995 ;     280 words ......PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq-NNM: MTWN) announced...two-for-one splits in 1979 and 1983. Mark Twain's President and Chief Executive Officer...consecutive quarter of record earnings. Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc. is a 31-year-old bank...

MARK TWAIN BANCSHARES ANNOUNCES SECOND QUARTER DIVIDEND

PR Newswire;  April 4, 1995 ;     286 words ......PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc. announced today a second-quart...two-for-one splits in 1979 and 1983. Mark Twain's President and Chief Executive Officer...another record level of quarterly earnings. Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc. is a 31-year-old ...

Mark Twain Name to Disappear from Kansas City, Mo., Banking...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  July 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Jul. 1--Mark Twain -- a name that's almost as prominent on...disappear. On the weekend of July 12-13, Mark Twain Kansas City Bank will be subsumed by Mercantile Bank. Not only will the Mark Twain name disappear locally, but so will eight...