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Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
Mon, 26 Dec 2016 11:30:00 -0800
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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
-- 
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