The author of “Fairest Picture – Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe” thanks reviewer 
Arianne Laidlaw and the Mark Twain Forum for the thoughtful and concise book 
review. This book occurs at the rare intersection of literature, history and 
natural science, but there is unfinished business. The task remains for Mark 
Twain scholars to use “Fairest Picture” as a database of factual information 
to advance their literary analyses of Mark Twain’s works.  We leave it to 
interested Mark Twain Forum subscribers to reach their own conclusions on 
the timber claim controversy by reading “Fairest Picture” and any future 
works devoted to Mark Twain’s experiences in the Lake Tahoe region.

David C. Antonucci
Lake Tahoe, CA