Friend sent me the following article.  I guessed that Lincoln's appointment
for Orion to go to Nevada was it or the end of traffic on the river.  .
Boy, was I wrong.  This is a fascinating possibility I'd never heard about
before.

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/whats-the-connection-between-mark-twain-the-civil-war-and-abraham-lincoln.23525/


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Arianne Laidlaw