Thank you for pointing this out. I've spent a fair amount of time on the Mark Twain Project site but I hadn't seen this before. As a geographer, I'm gratified that this is open to everyone without authentication. On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 09:25 -0700, Sharon K. Goetz wrote: > Perhaps also of interest: "Mark Twain on the Platform," an exhibit that > lists and maps lecture locations for four decades, including 1895-96. > Unlike the Google map, it doesn't require the viewer to sign into a Google > account. (For my part I cannot view Scott Holmes's map because Google Apps > for Education, which underlies my employer's email service, authenticates > users differently somehow.) > > http://www.marktwainproject.org/simile/platform/ > > Best, > Sharon > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > Mark Twain set off on his Following the Equator tour with a number of > > lectures across the North American continent, both US and Canadian > > stops. He doesn't mention them in the book but they did allow him to > > refresh his oratory skills and perhaps not hate lecturing so much. He > > showed great resiliency and discipline seeing as how he was suffering a > > nasty carbuncle that didn't heal up until he found an Australian doctor. > > At least this is what I found in Autobiography of Mark Twain V1. > > > > Anyway, I have mapped his North American lecture locations in Google > > Maps https://goo.gl/maps/PchIY for anyone interested. I got the > > location and dates from David Fears' Mark Twain Day By Day. I purchased > > the PDFs for the two years, 1895 and 1896. I have not included much > > detail in the site descriptions but there are a lot of stories to be > > told here. These are only the locations from Paris, France to Victoria, > > Canada. I will continue on with this project as time allows. > > > > <http://twitter.com/mtpo>