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Article: MARK TWAIN IN MONTANA, JUNE 15
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 11, 2007
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The Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks issued the following news release:
The public is cordially invited to 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 at the time, and Twain survived the interview. Some three decades later on the third leg of his worldwide lecture tour, Twain stopped and ...