Jeff Steinbrink did a very informative and thoughtful (and entertaining)
paper on the coyote at the recent Elmira conference.

Most impressive was Jeff's expertise navigating the choppy waters of
Powerpoint.  Many of us were awed by it.  I hurried back to my room and
spent 3 hours converting my own talk into PPoint, stifled, humbled, and
amazed by Prof. Steinbrink's tech-savviness...

-hb


On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Ron Hohenhaus <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> (Apologies for my previous porridge. Martin Zehr has kindly responded to
> one
> of my questions already. He advises that the description of the "coyote" as
> an "allegory of want" is from "Roughing It".  And that Shelley Fisher
> Fishkin included Twain's description in her edited book, "Mark Twain and
> His
> Animals". I hope the following makes a little more sense. -- RH)
>
> ********
>
> Isn't it great to see the name 'Artemus Ward' again being linked with SLC.
>
> Kevin Mac Donnell's research on the pseudonym is such an attractive piece
> of
> analysis, I hope hundreds subscribe to MTJ just to read his complete
> argument. Personally, I've always felt that any reading of Ward brought me
> a
> little closer to Twain, particularly his Comstock years. And I have Larry
> Berkove to thank for that (and more).
>
> A somewhat related question -- does anyone know the full name of H.W.
> Bergen, Twain's agent in the 1870s? I have the complete name (somewhere)
> for
> Ward's agent, E.P. Hingston (an Australian BTW), but Bergen's full name
> seems elusive for some odd reason. A bigger question:  when did this
> tradition of using initials originate for managers and agents? Can we blame
> Phineas T. Barnum? Or does it go back further?
>
> I was recently told that the late 20th century animator Chuck Jones,
> creator
> of Wile E. Coyote, attributed inspiration for his hit cartoon character to
> a
> chapter of "Roughing It". Don't remember anything about a Coyote in
> "Roughing It", will have to  re-read it.
>
> Ron Hohenhaus
> Brisbane, Australia
>



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