Season 1, Episode 5 (1959), titled "Enter Mark Twain." Sam Clemens was in 3
episodes of "Bonanza," as his Plan B, I'm sure, in case his littery career
didn't pan out.


On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Kevin Mac Donnell <
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> Damnation! I dug into all of those newspapers and journals, did all that
> research, and the answer was on Youtube the whole time? I've now got a bad
> case of the fantods.
>
> Kevin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl J. Chimi
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 12:47 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Kevin MacDonnell got the origin of "Mark Twain" completely wrong
>
> Yup, dead wrong.
>
> =20
>
> How do I know?
>
> =20
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4GYRGafQ7SI
>
> =20
>
> Yup, a 1959 episode of Bonanza gives the full account of how the =
> Cartwright clan helped (an oddly mid-40s guy who in no way resembles the =
> actual young Sam Clemens) the young reporter to come up with his pen =
> name.
>
> =20
>
> It must be historically accurate because it is a TV western, and they =
> knew a lot more about historical facts then than we do nowadays.
>
> =20
>
> Sorry you went through all that effort, Kevin, but Hoss beat you to it!
>
> =20
>
> Carl
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