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There are several on-line sources that handle Twain's chronology.  I
have several bookmarked:
http://www.twainquotes.com/SpeechIndex.html
http://www.marktwainproject.org/simile/platform/
http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/index2.html
This is not to mention David Fear's massive Mark Twain Day By Day.
On Mon, 2016-12-26 at 19:58 +0000, Clay Shannon wrote:
> Very cool, but do you have a chronological list? I want to create
> something I can just "flip through" to quickly find where he was
> when. Perhaps the "title page" would just be the textual list,
> followed by a map with a pushpin for each significant location.
>  
> - B. Clay Shannon
> 
> 
> From: Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask] 
> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2016 11:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Can anybody provide a chronological list of where Sam
> was at all times?
> 
> I already have all those locations mapped in both of my Mark Twain
> Gazetters, and a lot more:  http://bscottholmes.com/twain-gazetteer
> http://twainsgeography.com/gazetteer
> The Twainsgeogrpahy gazetteer doesn't have the Twain-Cable locations
> yet, however.
> 
> 
> It's not Powerpoint, of course, but you're welcome to make screen
> shots
> of the maps.
> 
> On Mon, 2016-12-26 at 19:07 +0000, Clay Shannon wrote:
> > I would like to create a PowerPoint presentation that would show
> one
> > locati=
> > on per slide (a map with a pushpin designating where he was living
> at
> > the t=
> > ime), following Sam/Mark through his life. e.g., slide 1 would be:
> > 1835-1839: Florida, MO
> > Slide 2 would be:
> > 1839-1857: Hannibal, MO
> > ...etc.
> > The comprehensive list would include dozens of places around both
> the
> > U.S. =
> > and the world; it would suffice to limit the changes of locale to
> > places wh=
> > ere he stayed long enough to be considered at least a temporary
> > resident th=
> > ere. Or if he moved around a general area for some time, but
> without
> > stayin=
> > g long in any one place, I would just make it a slide using a
> > country, such=
> >  as "September 1880: Switzerland" (or whenever it was that he was
> > gathering=
> >  material for "A Tramp Abroad").IOW, dates for the following
> > locations migh=
> > t suffice:
> > Florida, MO
> > Hannibal, MO
> > St. Louis, MO
> > New York, NY
> > Philadelphia, PA
> > Washington, DC
> > Keokuk, IA
> > Muscatine, IA
> > Cincinnati, OH
> > Carson City, NV
> > Aurora, NV
> > Virginia City, NV
> > San Francisco, CA
> > Tuolumne County, CA
> > Hawaii
> > Hartford, CT
> > Elmira, NY
> > ...
> > Germany
> > Switzerland
> > Austria
> > France
> > Italy
> > England
> > Sweden
> > ...
> > Bermuda
> > Does anyone here have such a timeline/chronological listing they
> > would be w=
> > illing to share? I will gladly make the resulting PowerPoint file
> > available=
> >  publicly.=C2=A0- B. Clay Shannon
> 
> -- 
> There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt
> of
>                           in your philosophy.
>                         http://bscottholmes.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
-- 
 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
                          in your philosophy.
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