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"A Roaring in the Wind" inspired by "Roughing It"?
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Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]>
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Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:00:32 +0000
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Lewis Taylor (for "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters") also wrote a novel entitled "A Roaring in the Wind," which features the vicious outlaw Slade as a character.
Taylor even quotes from Twain's description of a meeting Sam and Orion had with Slade while on the stage coach journey from Missouri to Nevada, which appears in "Roughing It."
Could A Roaring in the Wind have been inspired by Taylor reading "Roughing It"?
I always considered The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters to be Twainesque - Jaimie was quite Huckish.
- B. Clay Shannon

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