Interesting that you (David Antonucci) also received an email with an unknown "handle", because the email from S-S to me was also accusatory, asking why I ignored the balloon voyage. It did not take me long to find the article in question: During the 2,500 hours of Internet and library detective work involved in researching and writing 400 endnotes for the award winning "Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen and Hosea B. Grosh", I learned a lot of search tricks, including locations for 1850s-60s publications. I also determined that Sisu Suku is Finnish, not really translatable but approximating "devoted to extended family". I assumed a genealogist. I agree: Is somebody stirring the pot? Robert E. (Bob) Stewart Carson City. In a message dated 11/24/2014 9:32:14 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: I too received an email message from a Sisu Suku. However, the tone of the communication was accusatory about my book, Fairest Picture =E2=80=93 M= ark Twain at Lake Tahoe. The writer insinuated because the Roughing It balloon voyage passage was a plagiarism; the sketch was false. Therefore, my research on correlating it to the campsite location was not correct. The email arrived shortly after I had made a paid speaking engagement in Carson City in which I described the Roughing It balloon voyage episode in detail. When I asked the writer for the plagiarized reference document as proof, I got no response. According to the hidden AOL header on the email, it originated from a Charter Communications Internet customer in Carson City, NV. An in-depth Internet search on the name Sisu Suku revealed no such person existed in the United States. The person who spoofed the email did not want their identity known, nor did they wish to share their background information with me. I smell a rat. David C. Antonucci Author of Fairest Picture - Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe