Scott and John, Very interested in the tour. Have read the books cited here. Mentioned it in both of my books: one about the Cotton Centennial Exposition that was going on during the time of the tour and was several times mentioned in New Orleans newspapers (*Southern Ladies and Suffragists*) and the other about how Grace King began her literary career contra-Cable because of how he, a fellow New Orleanian, treated the Creole population in his stories. When King met Twain, he endeared himself to her by complaining about and mimicking Cable from that tour (*A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain's Court*). He was outdone with Cable's Sabbatarian ways that kept him from Sunday travel and performing. Money and time lost. I presume you know that Tulane University holds Cable papers in its Louisiana Collection: https://archives.tulane.edu/repositories/3/resources/956 I'm enjoying reading the calendar. Thanks for doing that. Let's share. Miki Pfeffer On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 2:43 PM Bird, John C. <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Very interesting, Scott! I am working on a biography of Mark Twain in > 1884, so I will be very excited to see your work. (That is an > understatement!) I have material from the tour, so you can write me to see > if I can be of any help. You will surely be of help to me! > > > > John > > [log in to unmask] > > > > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10 > > > > From: scott<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 3:40 PM > To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Twain-Cable Tour train routes > > > > Spending my time in self-imposed isolation, I've been doing some work > on my twainsgeography site, the Twain-Cable Tour section. I'm using > the KML files developed by the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, to > illustrated the train routes taken between shows. So far I'm up to > December 3, 1884. I have seen no direct mention of which trains or > schedules taken but I'm taking my best guess from train routes mapped > for 1870. I will continue to migrate my data from my original home > site page for the tour to the twainsgeography site - which is more > oriented to geographical considerations than my original site. I would > welcome any comments and/or additional information on this topic. > > https://twainsgeography.com/content/the-tour > > CAUTION: This message originated from an external source > -- Miki Pfeffer, Ph D *A** New Orlean**s Author i**n Mark Twain's Court: * *Letters from Grace King's New England Sojourns * (LSU Press, 2019) *Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair *(University Press of Mississippi, 2014)