Thanks to Matt Seybold for posting an outstanding bit of research on "The
Texan Steer."  His assessment  that the article might be an "excellent
counterfeit" is also worthy of consideration.  The time frame for this
article would have been in the midst of the time period when Frank Manly
Thorn was also contributing to the EXPRESS under the pseudonym of "Hy
Slocum."  More info on that controversy is available here:

http://www.twainquotes.com/HySlocum.html

Barb