It may be the article "Memories of a Frontier Childhood" by Emma North Messer in OVERLAND MONTHLY (1924). The series starts at this link on google books -- https://books.google.com/books?id=CXjPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA339&lpg=PA339&dq=%22memories+of+a+frontier+childhood%22+%2B+%22emma+north%22&source=bl&ots=URmjxqnPdP&sig=ACfU3U2GQ6il4o6Gd5gU6rjPv_lYB7XQvg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjNyabpg9j3AhUAkmoFHc17ApUQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=%22memories%20of%20a%20frontier%20childhood%22%20%2B%20%22emma%20north%22&f=false Barb On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:40 AM <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I am continuing my search for information about Sam Clemens in Nevada > Territory in 1861-64. John Wesley North of Minnesota had been appointed > Surveyor General of Nevada Territory, then became a territorial judge. He > is considered to be the man who told Sam Clemens to slope (quietly leave > the Territory) after the Virginia City Duel challenge. A number of years > ago I read, on the Internet, a sketch by one of the North children, a > daughter as I remember, in which Clemens as either Sam or Mark, is > mentioned relative to his visit to the Carson City school the child > attended. At the time I thought I could always come back to that article, > which of course is not true. Does this ring a bell with anyone? I would > really really like to find that article, or a copy thereof. >