TWAIN-L Archives

Mark Twain Forum

TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA

Options: Use Classic View

Use Proportional Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Calton Bolick <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 20:18:47 -0700
text/plain (15 lines)
I found the this item in the new issue (July/August 1997) of _Archaeology_
magazine...

Twain Site Demolished

A California developer has torn down Nevada's Desert Wells Station, a
trading post for pioneers traveling the California Trail in the 1850s and
later a station on the Overland Stage and Mail Route. In _Roughing It_,
Mark Twain chronicled a night he and two friends spent in a blizzard only
to realize at daybreak they were 15 steps from the station. The landmark
was not protected by law because it was on private land.

Calton Bolick
Berkeley, CA

ATOM RSS1 RSS2