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Category: Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago

Thanks to David Fears’s momentous reference work MARK TWAIN DAY BY DAY, Mark Twain scholars and enthusiasts can find out where Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain was and what the author was doing for large spans of his life. This series highlights entries on the sesquicentennial anniversary of each specific day.

#StagecoachLife: 150 Years of Mark Twain’s Roughing It

#StagecoachLife: 150 Years of Mark Twain’s Roughing It

Posted on February 28, 2022February 28, 2022 by Matt Seybold

Mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Mark Twain’s Roughing It by joining a discussion of the book with CMTS’s resident scholar.

Posted in CMTS Events, Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago, The StudyTagged Civil War, Mark Twain, Roughing It2 Comments on #StagecoachLife: 150 Years of Mark Twain’s Roughing It
150 Years of The Revised Catechism

150 Years of The Revised Catechism

Posted on September 27, 2021September 27, 2021 by Matt Seybold

Get rich. Dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

Posted in Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years AgoTagged Boss Tweed, Mark Twain, Tammany Hall, Thomas NastLeave a Comment on 150 Years of The Revised Catechism
Mark Twain Day By Day: The Day Mark Twain Defended A Serial Killer

Mark Twain Day By Day: The Day Mark Twain Defended A Serial Killer

Posted on April 29, 2021April 27, 2021 by Joe Lemak

On April 29, 1871 Mark Twain tried to stop the public execution of “The Genius Killer”

Posted in Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years AgoTagged Edward H. Ruloff, Mark Twain Day by Day, Uris Hall, Uxoricide, Whitelaw ReidLeave a Comment on Mark Twain Day By Day: The Day Mark Twain Defended A Serial Killer
Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago: A Long, Hard Winter in Buffalo

Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago: A Long, Hard Winter in Buffalo

Posted on March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 by Joe Lemak

#SesquicentennialSam continues….

Posted in Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years AgoTagged 472 Delaware, Bret Harte, Buffalo, Buffalo and Mark Twain, Buffalo Express, Emma Nye, Mark Twain Day by Day, Mark Twain in Buffalo, Orion Clemens, SusquicentennialSamLeave a Comment on Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago: A Long, Hard Winter in Buffalo
Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago – February 7, 1871

Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago – February 7, 1871

Posted on February 8, 2021February 8, 2021 by Joe Lemak

#SesquicentennialSam continues…

Posted in Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years AgoTagged Buffalo Express, Day By Day, Ebbit House, George Townsend, Mark Twain, Mathew Brady, Samuel ClemensLeave a Comment on Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago – February 7, 1871
CMTS Launches A New Series – Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago

CMTS Launches A New Series – Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago

Posted on January 19, 2021January 22, 2021 by Joe Lemak

We start our new series with an accusation of plagiarism against Mark Twain

Posted in Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years AgoTagged Every Saturday, Mark Twain Day by Day, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Twain in BuffaloLeave a Comment on CMTS Launches A New Series – Mark Twain Day By Day 150 Years Ago
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