Dear Larry and Forum Members, Twenty-five years ago there appeared a good article on the gradual evolution of Twain's eventually enlightened views toward the Native American--James C. McNutt's "Mark Twain and the American Indian: Earthly Realism and Heavenly Idealism," AMERICAN INDIAN QUARTERLY, 4 (August 1978): 223-242. In many ways it might be said that Twain's own shifting attitudes very much reflected the general ideas held by most Americans, decade by decade, as fear and disparagement of the vanishing Native American was replaced by concern for and belated (often harmful) efforts at preserving the remaining tribes. Regards, Alan Gribben Auburn University Montgomery