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Re: Query: total mileage for MT?
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"John H. Muller" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:48:34 -0400
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See ... that's exactly what I mean! =)

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 7:42 PM, Kevin Mac Donnell <
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> 168, 694 miles
>
>
> Kevin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John H. Muller
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 5:42 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Query: total mileage for MT?
>
> Mac Donnell's scholarship is without blemish, as far as I'm concerned.
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 6:22 PM, Peter Salwen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I'm not aware that anyone has done these calculations, but I wouldn't be
> > surprised if Kevin Mac Donnell turns out to have the answer.
> >
> > If you decide to do the computation yourself, be sure to include Twain's
> > 47-mile nighttime trek around his & Harris's hotel room (A Tramp Abroad,
> > Ch. XIII).
> >
> > *_________________________________*
> >
> > *Peter Salwen /* salwen.com
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> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 5:23 PM, Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Folks;  I'm being asked whether any scholar has totaled up the
> > > (approximate=
> > > ) number of miles that MT covered in his lifetime? Mississippi,
> > > east-west
> > > t=
> > > ravels in America, the 29 crossings of the Atlantic, the
> round-the-world
> > > tr=
> > > ip?
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there any such total -- or even guesstimate -- by an intrepid
> scholar
> > > ou=
> > > t there??
> > >
> > >
> > > -hb
> > >
> > >
> > > Dr. Hal Bush
> > >
> > > Dept. of English
> > >
> > > Saint Louis University
> > >
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > > 314-977-3616
> > >
> > > http://halbush.com
> > >
> > > author website:  halbush.com
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
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-- 
John Muller
202.236.3413
Capital Community News l Greater Greater Washington l Washington Syndicate

*Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C: The Lion of Anacostia
<http://www.amazon.com/Frederick-Douglass-Washington-D-c-Anacostia/dp/1609495772/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=H42HP4SBZ8OA&coliid=I34OMAR1SV8L9G>*
[The
History Press, 2012]  Winner of 2013 DC READS
Mark Twain in Washington, D.C.: The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent
<http://amzn.to/19PzIFd> [The History Press, 2013]

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