You should make that THE Amazon. I think everyone will get it. On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 4:58 PM miki pfeffer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Scott, > I don't know if you know of any research on a side trip Clemens might have > taken to Schriever, Louisiana during this trip. > > Local lore and some apparent evidence suggests a visit in 1882 to a > riverboat friend, John T. Moore, who owned Waubun plantation in Schriver > along the Southern Pacific Railroad line. The train from New Orleans still > makes a brief stop when there's someone (like my now-deceased mother when > she came to visit) who needs to disembark. > > The house Waubun still exists and is now lived in by a friend of mine who > is caretaking it at the same time he is the archivist at Nicholls State > University here in Thibodaux, just a few miles from the house. > > Here's an article in a local paper from 2010. See what you think: > https://www.houmatoday.com/article/DA/20101229/Entertainment/608099735/HC > > Regards, > Miki > > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 2:03 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > I mapped Sam's journey from Keokuk to New Orleans, via Chicago and > > Cincinnati, for those of you interested in such things. Any commentary > > is from the Mark Twain Project's collection of letters and editorials. > > I'm still trying to sort out the history of the railroads involved. I'm > > discovering just how corrupt the development of railroads was. > > > > http://twainsgeography.com/content/starting-out-amazon > > > > If anyone knows of commentary on Sam's first trip with Horace Bixby I'd > > appreciate a lead on it. About all I know is Sam got aboard the Paul > > Jones in Cincinnati, ran aground near Louisville, dropped of armaments > > at Baton Rouge and discovered that passage to the Amazon was not > > immediately available fro New Orleans. > > > > > -- > 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) >