Mark Twain Shuffles Off to Buffalo
Tom Reigstad provides a summary of Mark Twain’s prolific period in Buffalo, New York
Author: Thomas Reigstad
New Documentary focuses on Twain’s Time in Buffalo
For over three decades I poked around in the area of Twain’s connection to my hometown, Buffalo, NY. I spent countless hours in the Grosvenor Room of the Central Library in downtown Buffalo flipping through pages of the over one hundred volumes of the Local History and Local Biographies scrapbooks, taking notes from pasted newspaper clippings that contained relevant information. I read and cross-referenced entries in Buffalo City Directories of […]
Mark Twain’s Father-in-Law’s Monopoly: A Brief History of The J. Langdon Coal Company
EDITOR”S NOTE: What follows is a revised version of a talk delivered by Dr. Reigstad at the 8th Quadrennial Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies. It draws upon materials from both the CMTS archives and the Chemung County Historical Society. Mark Twain officially joined the Langdon family and became associated with its vast coal enterprises when he became engaged to Olivia on February 4, 1869. Three weeks later […]