Damnation! I dug into all of those newspapers and journals, did all that 
research, and the answer was on Youtube the whole time? I've now got a bad 
case of the fantods.

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-----Original Message----- 
From: Carl J. Chimi
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 12:47 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Kevin MacDonnell got the origin of "Mark Twain" completely wrong

Yup, dead wrong.

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How do I know?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4GYRGafQ7SI

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Yup, a 1959 episode of Bonanza gives the full account of how the =
Cartwright clan helped (an oddly mid-40s guy who in no way resembles the =
actual young Sam Clemens) the young reporter to come up with his pen =
name.

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It must be historically accurate because it is a TV western, and they =
knew a lot more about historical facts then than we do nowadays.

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Sorry you went through all that effort, Kevin, but Hoss beat you to it!

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Carl

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