For those of you with an interest in David Fears’ “Mark Twain Day By 
Day”, I’ve been working at incorporating it into my “Twain’s Geography” 
project.  This was recommended to me during the Roughing It conference 
in Elmira back in ‘21 and it seemed a good fit as I had been unable to 
develop a suitable time-line, on my own.  I had already included 
selected entries of geographic interest, in fact Mr. Fears had sent me 
pdfs for different periods, particularly those related to railroad 
travels.  As I write this I’ve created entries for all dates from the 
first two volumes and most of the last two.
Visitors to Twain’s Geography can access these records in a number of 
ways.  Along the top menu bar is the tab “DBD Dates”.  This option 
provides a screen for entering a range of dates.  This will create a 
scrolling list of entries.  A second method of access is a menu box at 
the top left side titled “Day By Day Volumes”. There are four expanding 
options, one for each volume.
The original method of access to Day By Day entries are URLs in the 
upper right corner of pages categorized as Epochs, Episodes and some 
Chapters.  These URLs open scrolling lists of dates relevant to pages 
they are found on.  As Day By Day entries are part of Twain’s Geography, 
their content, along with the rest of the site, have been indexed by 
Drupal, consequently using the site’s “search” option will find them.
Each of the Day By Day dates is in a unique node, with the exception of 
a few that I chose to combine into single dates (node is a Drupal 
term).  I do hope that what I’ve been doing meets with the approval of 
the Center for Mark Twain Studies, as they own the rights to “Mark Twain 
Day By Day”.  Besides being of utility to my own work, I hope my version 
of David Fears’ work will provide greater facility and ease of use to 
researchers.
I don’t pretend to claim that there is any original material in either 
Fears’ work or my own.  And, there is little of what might be termed 
literary analysis.  What I do think is that we  have provided a guide 
book through the life and times of Samuel L. Clemens aka Mark Twain.
I’m aware that there is criticism of Fears’ work.  I would like to 
provide an opportunity for those that care to provide feedback on the 
material, both Fears’ as well as my own.  Given the nature of the 
internet these days, such an opportunity can be granted only to 
registered users of this site.  There is no cost involved but I do need 
a valid email address and I prefer users use their real names.  Twain’s 
Geography is “ad-free” with no commercial ties.  I did try using Adsense 
ads for a time to help defray the expense of running this site, but 
these provided no income – and I didn’t like their appearance.

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/*Unaffiliated Geographer and Twain aficionado*/

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