Begin with Rasmussen's MARK TWAIN A-Z. That is the most accurate chronology. If you are going to use maps and try to pinpoint locations with any accuracy, you are in for hours of fun. Exact addresses for some locations are unknown or will require chasing down old city directories, which will contain conflicting information. Not only street names, but entire city street-numbering systems have changed for some places since Twain's day; in one instance in my own research I was unsure of which corner a building had stood, so I traveled to the intersection, held up an old photo taken of the building in question before it was torn down, and figured out the exact placement of that building by aligning the photo with a distinctive telephone pole that appeared in the photo and was miraculously still standing. BTW, I did this to verify the location of a place where Twain falsely claimed he had stayed, which is something else to watch for. Some maps you'd think would exist online can only be found in obscure and unexpected sources. Trust but verify when relying on local historians; I've twice been misinformed by well-meaning local experts. Much more has been lost than saved, as most Twainians already know, but the things that do survive are not always what they seem; the structure on display as his birthplace is very likely not his birthplace. The offices of the Territorial Enterprise were destroyed by fire in the 1870s and the site that tourists see today is not even at the original location where Twain worked in the 1860s. Even the Brick Church in NYC where services were held for Twain in 1910 was torn down in the 1930s and the "new" church is 40 blocks away, uptown. John M. Clemens's law office still stands in Hannibal, but not on its original site. Some of the photos on old postcards or in older books about Mark Twain are not to be trusted. As for the Mississippi River, there are old sectional maps (one I'm familiar with is ten feet long) that record the channels as they existed in Twain's day, but you'll have to overlay them on current maps (and don't forget that the Mississippi River once extended hundreds of miles into the Gulf of Mexico). When you get to Australia, India, South Africa, France, Germany, England, and Scotland, take every complication I've already mentioned and multiply by five, not to mention the language barrier in Scotland. Kevin @ Mac Donnell Rare Books 9307 Glenlake Drive Austin TX 78730 512-345-4139 Member: ABAA, ILAB ************************* You may browse our books at: www.macdonnellrarebooks.com -----Original Message----- From: Scott Holmes Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2016 1:27 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Can anybody provide a chronological list of where Sam was at all times? That's on my to-do list for interactive overlays on my maps. Â I've still got far too many other points to map, though; most of Following the Equator and A Tramp Abroad. Â I haven't made up my mind about Life on the Mississippi as the river Twain steamed on is not the same river today. Â Plotting his channels is theoretically possible but would entail a great deal of work. On Tue, 2016-12-27 at 05:59 +0000, Clay Shannon wrote: > What would be REALLY cool is to have access to "period"/historical > maps tha= > t corresponded to the time Twain was in each location (1840s for > Hannibal, = > 1860s for Nevada and California, etc).=C2=A0- B. Clay Shannon > > Â Â Â Â Â Â From: Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> > Â To: [log in to unmask] > Â Sent: Monday, December 26, 2016 12:32 PM > Â Subject: Re: Can anybody provide a chronological list of where Sam > was at = > all times? > Â =20 > I recommend R. Kent Rasmussen's MARK TWAIN A TO Z or its updated > edition of > CRITICAL COMPANION TO MARK TWAIN.=C2=A0 Both references have > extensive > chronological charts of where Mark Twain was when. > > Barb > > > Â =20 -- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. http://bscottholmes.com