Why restrict ourselves to Charles F. Browne ("Artemus Ward"--and I did think his stuff was funny when I read it 30 years ago. He was an early practitioner of the American pose of comic ignorance, and there is no doubt that his unprecedented platform style was the model for Twain's later successes. ) and Samuel Brockden Browne when we have J. Ross Browne to toss into the stew. What influence did his "Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk with Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe" have on Twain during his "Roughing It" days?