I'm thinking Twain might not have appreciated having his named on a book about Lake TAHOE, since he preferred (at least in the days when he lived in that region) to call it Lake Bigler. His dissatisfaction with Tahoe rested mainly with the fact that it was the Indian name, and he thought it sounded terrible, whereas Bigler had the advantage of sounding "Christian" and/or "English." It seems to me he also wrote somewhere -- maybe even in Roughing It -- that despite claims that Tahoe meant "fallen leaf" in the Indian tongue, it really meant something low and trivial, like maybe "stinkbug." Or maybe I just imagined that detail. -- Bob G.