This online letter to Livy written from Leukerbad may be of interest —
https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL01589.xml;query=Leukerbad;searchAll=;sectionType1=;sectionType2=;sectionType3=;sectionType4=;sectionType5=;style=letter;brand=mtp#1

 Barb

On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Interesting as Twain, at least in "A Tramp Abroad" was unable to
> distinguish between the two towns.  I can't check his journal or notebooks,
> however. /The town in the valley is called Leuk or Leukerbad. We pointed
> our course toward it, down a verdant slope which was adorned with fringed
> gentians and other flowers, and presently entered the narrow alleys of the
> outskirts and waded toward the middle of the town through liquid
> "fertilizer." They ought to either pave that village or organize a ferry./
>
> On 3/22/21 7:36 PM, Barbara Schmidt wrote:
>
>> I checked the passage in Rodney’s MARK TWAIN OVERSEAS, p. 106.  Rodney
>> does
>> not mention Leukerbad.
>>
>> Barb
>>
>> On Monday, March 22, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> I have recently relocated my twainsgeography site to Amazon's cloud server
>>> and am combing through my site for bothersome details.  For those
>>> interested in such minutia, Fears' Day by Day contains this passage:
>>>
>>> "The pair set off with an old guide and climbed on foot up through the
>>> pass, coming down a precipitous trail to the village of*Leuk***(a short
>>> distance from*Leukerbad*)[Rodney 106]."
>>>
>>> Fears apparently got this from Robert Rodney's "Mark Twain Overseas".
>>>
>>> The order of villages is actually reversed.  Leukerbad is the village
>>> with
>>> the baths and is found at the base of Gemmi Pass.  Leuk is the town to
>>> the
>>> south of Leukerbad.
>>>
>>> Just thought I'd mention it... http://twainsgeography.com/con
>>> tent/kandersteg-leukerbad
>>>
>>>