Scott,
I don't know if you know of any research on a side trip Clemens might have
taken to Schriever, Louisiana during this trip.

Local lore and some apparent evidence suggests a visit in 1882 to a
riverboat friend, John T. Moore, who owned Waubun plantation in Schriver
along the Southern Pacific Railroad line. The train from New Orleans still
makes a brief stop when there's someone (like my now-deceased mother when
she came to visit) who needs to disembark.

The house Waubun still exists and is now lived in by a friend of mine who
is caretaking it at the same time he is the archivist at Nicholls State
University here in Thibodaux, just a few miles from the house.

Here's an article in a local paper from 2010. See what you think:
https://www.houmatoday.com/article/DA/20101229/Entertainment/608099735/HC

Regards,
Miki


On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 2:03 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I mapped Sam's journey from Keokuk to New Orleans, via Chicago and
> Cincinnati, for those of you interested in such things.  Any commentary
> is from the Mark Twain Project's collection of letters and editorials.
> I'm still trying to sort out the history of the railroads involved.  I'm
> discovering just how corrupt the development of railroads was.
>
> http://twainsgeography.com/content/starting-out-amazon
>
> If anyone knows of commentary on Sam's first trip with Horace Bixby I'd
> appreciate a lead on it.  About all I know is Sam got aboard the Paul
> Jones in Cincinnati, ran aground near Louisville, dropped of armaments
> at Baton Rouge and discovered that passage to the Amazon was not
> immediately available fro New Orleans.
>


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*Letters from Grace King's New England Sojourns   *
(LSU Press, 2019)
*Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the
1884 New Orleans World's Fair   *(University Press of Mississippi, 2014)