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Dan goes home to Iowa. Sam had been hired to replace Dan but Dan kept postponing his departure for months – helping Sam get his voice right

Mark Twain was briefly Senator Nye’s secretary. In Sketches Old and New he gives an account of their parting, which occurred after Twain supposedly wrote ridiculous letters to constituents, following the Senator’s orders not to address controversial issues. http://is.gd/ZS4sLH http://www.nevadaobserver.com/Reading%20Room%20Documents/Senator%20Nye%20and%20Mark%20Twain%20(1867).htm

Sam Clemens and “Johnny Kinney”Ž— stake timber claims at Lake Tahoe, and start a forest fire. Recently arrived in Carson City, Kinney was ‘a real-estate dealer and mining speculator’Ž— who Sam met shortly after his arrival in Carson City. The two men set out to explore the lakes timber resources. In fact their aim was […]