At some point in the 1860s, H. William Atwill, under the pen name *Bill Dadd, the Scribe*, was writing for the Golden Era as a traveling correspondent. In 1869 he wrote a booklet on the Overland Railroad. At some point he became local editor for the Marysville Daily Appeal, leaving there for *the East* in 1872. I find nothing on him in the Autobiographies, or in Wikipedia at the Golden Era entry. Is anyone aware of him? Did his Golden Era time coincide with Twain's writing there? Atwill, AKA Dadd, seems to be a forgotten scrivener, but Alf. Doten mentions him in 1883 letters to the Enterprise, where a fictitious *Mr. Dadd * is a Reese River pioneer, identified in one letter as the son of *Bill Dadd*, the Scribe.