BOOKS AND MEDIA: Briefly Noted JOURNALS _Nevada Historical Society Quarterly_, Summer 2008, Volume 51, No. 2. $10.00 plus $2.50 shipping. This issue is devoted to Mark Twain in Nevada. Articles include "Mark Twain in Nevada" by Ronald J. James who is the Nevada State Historic Preservation Officer. James takes Ron Powers and Ken Burns to task for presenting inaccurate views of Nevada in their work. Robert E. Stewart, author of _Aurora, Nevada's Ghost City of the Dawn_ has contributed two articles: "Sam Clemens and the Wildland Fire at Lake Tahoe" and "Mark Twain's Return from Aurora." In the first of Stewart's articles he maps out a route from Carson City, Nevada to Lake Tahoe that he believes Clemens traveled in the fall of 1861. This trip was the one when Clemens accidentally started a wildfire on the banks of Lake Tahoe as described in _Roughing It_. Stewart's second article is an argument for overturning the popular misconception, originated by Twain's biographer Albert Bigelow Paine, that Mark Twain walked from Aurora to Virginia City, Nevada to take his job as an _Enterprise_ reporter in the fall of 1862. Stewart presents evidence that Clemens probably made the trip on horseback accompanied by Frank Fuller. David C. Antonucci, author of _The Natural World of Lake and Tahoe_ and _Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe_ has contributed "Mark Twain's Route to Lake Tahoe." Antonucci's proposed route to Lake Tahoe differs from the route proposed by Stewart. It is up to the reader to decide which route may be the correct one and both Antonucci and Stewart are commended for their detailed research. Cheryll Glotfelty, co-editor of _The Ecocriticism Reader_, has contributed a noteworthy short biography of Lawrence I. Berkove who is better known to many Mark Twain Forum subscribers as "Larry." Glotfelty's article "The Recovery of Sagebrush School Writers" discusses Berkove's work in "literary recovery" and his contributions to preservation and recovery of previously lost American literature. She presents an omnibus book review of Berkove's most recent works including his monumental two-volume edition _Insider Stories of the Comstock Lode and Nevada's Mining Frontier, 1859-1909_ (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007). The _Reno Gazette Journal_ has a story about this issue in their Friday, October 17 edition online at: http://news.rgj.com/article/20081017/CARSON/810170353/1003 This issue of _Nevada Historical Society Quarterly_ is available from: Nevada Historical Society, 1650 N. Virginia St., Reno, NV, 89503 or by telephone with credit card at 775-688-1190 (press 4 for the store.)