Article: Virginia City a bonanza for history buffs

Article: Excavations may shed light on Mark Twain's ...
Asian News International;  July 27, 2009 ;     697 words ... ... on life in Virginia City during the time when Mark Twain lived there ... James. "Mark Twain rushed back ... Francisco to Virginia City so he could ... time when Virginia City was taking ... the name, Mark Twain, while working ...

Article: ARCHAEOLOGISTS INVESTIGATE MARK TWAIN'S ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 17, 2008 ;     674 words ... ... light on life in Virginia City during the time when Mark Twain called the place ... fill some gaps." Virginia City was founded after ... Enterprise, taking Mark Twain as his penname ... the underbelly of Virginia City," said project ...

Transcript: Interview: Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin discusses ...
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR);  July 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Fishkin discusses Mark Twain's first writing job with the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise ... famous pen name, Mark Twain, began to earn ... summer of 1862 in Virginia City. Joining us from ... Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture ...

Article: FROM SAM CLEMENS TO MARK TWAIN.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
The Virginian Pilot;  March 23, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Kaplan's Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (1966), the winner of ... opened his biography with Mark Twain in his early 30s, on the ... he became a reporter in Virginia City and discovered his new identity: Mark Twain. It was with his story ...

Article: CASINOS A SAFE BET FOR HOLBROOK; VETERAN PORTRAYER OF MARK ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  November 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Vadeboncoeur Staff writer Mark Twain delivering his wit and ... halls during his days in Virginia City. So it is not heresy ... Holbrook is bringing his "Mark Twain Tonight" to Turning ... that Wynn has seen "Mark Twain Tonight" several times ...

Article: MARK TWAIN IN MONTANA, JUNE 15
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 11, 2007 ;     363 words ... ... th for an evening with Mark Twain. In the early 1860s ... Carson City, Nevada, Mark Twain met and had breakfast with the notorious Virginia City desperado Bad Jack Slade ... historical events from Mark Twain's unique perspective ...

Encyclopedia entry: Mark Twain
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...Mark Twain pseud. of Samuel Langhorne ... hence his pseudonym, "Mark Twain," which was the river ... eventually began writing for the Virginia City Examiner and later was a ... Francisco. Soon the humorist "Mark Twain" emerged, a writer of ...