BRIEFLY NOTED: _Mark Twain's 88 Days in the Mother Lode & Stories of the Gold Rush_. Written and compiled by James Fletcher. Softcover. 158 pages. Manzanita Writers Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-9908019-1-7. $20.00. James Fletcher will be a familiar name to those viewers who have seen the Brown and Simonis video production _88 Days in the Motherlode_ (2015) where Fletcher appeared as the "Calaveras County Storyteller." Fletcher is a former school administrator and classroom teacher who now resides in Angels Camp, California, where he has served as a docent at the Angels Camp Museum. His book features five chapters including "Sam Clemens Journeys West," "The Mother Lode Influence," "Billy Gillis and His Gold Rush Stories," and "The Jumping Frog Story." Fletcher draws much of his material from the classic works of Mark Twain published by the University of California Press, Albert Bigelow Paine's biography of Mark Twain, Charles Neider's autobiography of Mark Twain, William Gillis's memoirs, works by historian Edna Bryan Buckbee, and publications by George Williams III. Fletcher's book features illustrations from Mark Twain's first editions as well as historical photographs of the area. The publisher's webpage for this book is: http://manzapress.com/