Robert Stewart uses the question on the days of travel west by Sam and Orion Clemens to take MTF readers down the irrelevant rabbit hole of Stewart’s timber claim theory. The original question was answered succinctly by others and we concur. By stating that Roughing It was “written-to-entertain,” Stewart’s answer intimated again that the visual environmental descriptions in the two chapters devoted to Lake Tahoe were not based on any fact. Stewart is bound by this veiled assertion, since none of Twain’s environmental descriptions of his surroundings near the timber claim site are consistent with Stewart’s proposed location on the East Shore of Lake Tahoe. The Lake Tahoe chapters of Roughing It are creative nonfiction, where the writer uses the techniques of the novelist to form a story based on real-world experience. Twain’s vivid descriptions of the distances, geology, limnology, topography, geography, flora and fauna are all borne out by the unique and actual physical conditions found on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe – exactly where Twain twice wrote and told another he was located. Of course, Roughing It is neither all true nor all false, and each of its sketches must be evaluated objectively for veracity. Stewart previously posted on the MTF a counter factual account of the timber claim story based on selected excerpts from the historical record. We are analyzing this document from the standpoints of logic and critical thinking and will post our critique on the MTF for readers to consider. David C. Antonucci Author of Fairest Picture – Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe