You should make that THE Amazon. I think everyone will get it.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 4:58 PM miki pfeffer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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.
> >
>
>
> --
> Miki Pfeffer, Ph D
> *A** New Orlean**s Author i**n Mark Twain's Court: *
> *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)
>