Interesting that you (David Antonucci) also received an email with an  
unknown "handle", because the email from S-S to me was also accusatory, asking  
why I ignored the balloon voyage. It did not take me long to find the 
article in  question: During the 2,500 hours of Internet and library detective 
work  involved in researching and writing 400 endnotes for the award winning 
"Gold  Rush Letters of E. Allen and Hosea B. Grosh", I learned a lot of search 
tricks,  including locations for 1850s-60s publications.
I also determined that Sisu Suku is Finnish, not really translatable but  
approximating "devoted to extended family". I assumed a genealogist. I agree: 
 Is somebody stirring the pot? 
 
Robert E. (Bob) Stewart
Carson City.
 
 
In a message dated 11/24/2014 9:32:14 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
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I too  received an email message from a Sisu Suku. However, the tone of
the  communication was accusatory about my book, Fairest Picture =E2=80=93  
M=
ark
Twain at Lake Tahoe. The writer insinuated because the Roughing  It
balloon voyage passage was a plagiarism; the sketch was  false.
Therefore, my research on correlating it to the campsite location  was
not correct.  The email arrived shortly after I had made a  paid
speaking engagement in Carson City in which I described the  Roughing
It balloon voyage episode in detail. When I asked the writer for  the
plagiarized reference document as proof, I got no  response.

According to the hidden AOL header on the email, it  originated from a
Charter Communications Internet customer in Carson City,  NV. An
in-depth Internet search on the name Sisu Suku revealed no such  person
existed in the United States. The person who spoofed the email did  not
want their identity known, nor did they wish to share their  background
information with me.

I smell a rat.

David C.  Antonucci
Author of Fairest Picture - Mark Twain at Lake  Tahoe