M a r k T w a i n
I. 1851 - 1865
1851
A Gallant Fireman
Hannibal Western Union/January 16, 1851
The Dandy Frightening the Squatter
Philadelphia American Courier/May 8, 1852
Hannibal Journal/September 9, 1852
"Local" Resolves to Commit Suicide
Hannibal Journal/September 16, 1852
Hannibal Journal/September 16, 1852
Historical Exhibition—A No. 1 Ruse
Hannibal Journal/September 16, 1852
Muscatine Journal/December 16, 1853
Muscatine Journal/January 6, 1854
Muscatine Journal/February 17, 1854
Muscatine Journal/March 24, 1854
Correspondence of the "Journal"
Muscatine Journal/February 28, 1855
Muscatine Journal/March 9, 1855
Correspondence of the "Journal"
Muscatine Journal/March 12, 1855
Correspondence of the "Journal"
Muscatine Journal/March 14, 1855
Keokuk Saturday Post/November 1, 1856
Keokuk Daily Post/November 29, 1856
Keokuk Daily Post/April 10, 1857
New Orleans Crescent/May 17, 1859
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Sept. 16, 1862
A Gale
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Oct. 1, 1862
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Oct. 4, 1862
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Oct. 13, 1862
The Spanish Mine
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Oct., 1862
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Nov. 1, 1862
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Dec. 5, 1862
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. Dec. 12, 1862
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. Dec. 13, 1862
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Dec. 23, 1862
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Dec. 28, 1862
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. Dec. 30, 1862
1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Jan. 1, 1863
Sulphur Deposit
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. Jan. 1, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Jan. 6, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Jan. 8, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/January 10, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. January 11, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. January 22, 1863
Letter from Carson
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February 5, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February 8, 1863
The Spanish
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. February 12, 1863
Silver Bars--How Assayed
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. February 17, 1863
Local Column
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. February 17, 1863
Ye Sentimental Law Student
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February 19, 1863
A Sunday in Carson
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February 24, 1863
Local Column
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February 25, 1863
Reportorial
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Feb. 26, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February 26, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. March 1, 1863
A Sunday in Carson
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. March 3, 1863ity Marshall Perry
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/March 4, 1863
Champagne With the Board of Brokers
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/March 7, 1863
Examination of Teachers
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. April 1, 1863
Local Column
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/April 3, 1863
Advice to The Unreliable on Church Going
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. April 12, 1863
Horrible Affair
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. April 16, 1863
Local Column
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. April 19, 1863
Letter from Mark Twain
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. May 19, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. June 21, 1863
Reese River at San Francisco
Virginia City Territorial Enterprise/c. July 1, 1863
Mark Twain's Letter
San Francisco Daily Call/July 9, 1863
San Francisco Daily Call/July 15, 1863
San Francisco Daily Call/July 18, 1863
San Francisco Daily Call/July 23, 1863
San Francisco Daily Call/July 30, 1863
Mark Twain's Letter
1863 (cont'd)
A Duel Prevented
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/August 2, 1863
An Apology Repudiated
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/August 4, 1863
Mark Twain's Letter
San Francisco Daily Call/August 6, 1863
San Francisco Daily Call/August 13, 1863
Letter From Mark Twain
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Aug. 19, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Aug. 25, 1863
Local Column
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Aug. 27, 1863
Dispatches By the State Line
San Francisco Daily Call/August 29, 1863
San Francisco Daily Call/August 30, 1863
Dispatches by the State Line
San Francisco Daily Call/September 3, 1863
Mark Twain's Letter
San Francisco Daily Call/September 3, 1863
Bigler vs. Tahoe
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. September 4, 1863
Over the Mountains
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/September 17, 1863
The Golden Era/September 20, 1863
The Golden Era/September 27, 1863
The Only True and Reliable Account...
The Golden Era/October 11, 1863
First Annual Fair of the Washoe Agricultural,
Mining and Mechanical Society
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. October 20, 1863
A Bloody Massacre Near Carson
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/October 28, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/October 29, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. November 8, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/November 17, 1863
Mark Twain on Artemus Ward,
"The Wild Humorist of the Plains"
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/November 27, 1863
Review of "Ingomar the Barbarian"
The Golden Era/November 29, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. December 1, 1863
San Francisco Daily Call/December 2, 1863
Letter from Mark Twain
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. December 5, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. December 13, 1863
Dispatches by the State Line
San Francisco Daily Call/December 11, 1863
Nevada State Constitutional Convention
Virginia City Enterprise/c. December 14, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/December 25, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise, December, 1863
Local Column
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/December 25, 1863
The Bolters in Convention
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/December 30, 1863
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/December 30, 1863
1864
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. January 11, 1864
Legislative Proceedings
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. January 13, 1864
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. January 14, 1864
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. January 15, 1864
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. January 16, 1864
Letter from Mark Twain--Miss Clapp's School
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. January 19, 1864
Legislative Proceedings
House--Ninth Day
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. January 21, 1864
Legislative Proceedings--Tenth Day
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. January 22, 1864
Legislative Proceedings
House--Sixteenth Day
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. January 28, 1864
Legislative Proceedings
House--Seventeenth Day
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. January 29, 1864
Letter from Dayton
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. February 1, 1864
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February 9, 1864
Letter from Mark Twain
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February 12, 1864
Legislative Proceedings
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February, 1864
The Carson Undertaker--Continued
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February, 1864
Legislative Proceedings
House--Thirty-Fifth Day
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February, 1864
The Removal of the Capital
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/Feb. 16, 1864
Legislative Proceedings
Thirty-Sixth Day
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February, 1864
Legislative Proceedings
Thirty-Seventh Day
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February, 1864
Legislative Proceedings
Thirty-Eighth Day
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February, 1864
Legislative Proceedings
Thirty-Ninth Day
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February, 1864
Legislative Proceedings
Fortieth Day
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/February, 1864
Doings in Nevada
New York Mercury/February 7, 1864
Those Blasted Children
New York Sunday Mercury/February 24, 1864
Another Traitor--Hang Him!
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/April 1, 1864
Frightful Accident to Dan DeQuille
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/April 20, 1864
Local Column
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. April 17, 1864
Shakespeare
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/April 23, 1864
Letter from Mark Twain
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/April 28, 1864
Washoe. "Information Wanted"
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/May 1, 1864
Grand Austin Flour-Sack Progress
Through Storey and Lyon Counties!
Virginia City Territorial Enterprise/May 17, 1864
1864 (cont'd)
Personal Correspondence
Virginia City Territorial Enterprise/May 24, 1864
"Miscegenation"
Virginia City Territorial Enterprise/May 24, 1864
Burglar Arrested
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/June 7, 1864
Another Chapter in the Marks Family History
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/June 11, 1864
Beasts in the Semblance of Men
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/June 12, 1864
Petty Police Court Transactions
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/June 15, 1864
Virginia City Territorial Enterprise/c. June 17, 1864
Another of Them
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/June 23, 1864
A Trip to the Cliff House
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/June 25, 1864
The Evidence in the Case of Smith v. Jones
Charges Against an Officer
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/June 28, 1864
The Kahn of Tartary
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/June 29, 1864
House at Large
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/July 1, 1864
Policeman Suspended
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/July 2, 1864
Early Rising, As Regards
Excursions to the Cliff House
Secesh Highwaymen
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/July 3, 1864
Another Chapter in the Marks Family History
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/July 11, 1864
Chinese Slaves
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/July 12, 1864
Calaboose Theatricals
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/July 14, 1864
A Gross Outrage
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/July 16, 1864
The County Prison
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/July 17, 1864
A Notable Conundrum
The Californian/October 1, 1864
Concerning the Answer to that Conundrum
The Californian/October 8, 1864
Had a Fit
San Francisco Daily Morning Call/October 11, 1864
Still Further Concerning that Conundrum
The Californian/October 15, 1864
Whereas
The Californian/October 22, 1864
Mark Twain in the Lion's Den--
And Out Again All Right
The Californian/November 5, 1864
The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
The Californian/November 12, 1864
A Full And Reliable Account Of The Extraordinary Meteoric Shower Of Last Saturday Night
The Californian/November 19, 1864
The Californian/March 18, 1865
The Wickedness of the Police
San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle/May 26, 1865
Mark Twain on Operatic Music
Mariposa Free Press/June 17, 1865
Immoral
San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle/June 19, 1865
Enthusiastic Eloquence
San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle/June 23, 1865
Just "One More Unfortunate"
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/June 27, 1865
Mark Twain on the Colored Man
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/July 7, 1865
The Cruel Earthquake
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/October 10, 1865
Popper Defieth Ye Earthquake
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/October 15, 1865
Earthquake Almanac
S. F. Dramatic Chronicle/October 17, 1865
Bob Roach's Plan for Circumventing a Democrat
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/October 21, 1865
San Francisco Letter
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/c. October 22, 1865
Attention, Fitz Smythe!
S. F. Dramatic Chronicle/October 26, 1865
San Francisco Letter
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/October 26, 1865
Lisle Lester on Her Travels
S. F. Dramatic Chronicle/October 30, 1865
Steamer Departures
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/October 31, 1865
More California Notables Gone
S. F. Dramatic Chronicle/November 1, 1865
"Chrystal" on Theology
S. F. Dramatic Chronicle/November 3, 1865
Oh, You Robinson!
S. F. Dramatic Chronicle/November 6, 1865
A Word From Lisle Lester
S. F. Dramatic Chronicle/November 7, 1865
"Surplusage"
S. F. Dramatic Chronicle/November 8, 1865
Ballad Infliction
The Californian/November 8, 1865
Pleasure Excursion
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/November 9, 1865
Stand Back!
S. F. Dramatic Chronicle/November 9, 1865
Cheerful Magnificence
S. F. Dramatic Chronicle/November 11, 1865
Exit "Bummer"
The Californian/November 11, 1865
Editorial “Puffing”
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/November 15, 1865
The Old Thing
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/November 18, 1865
The Pioneer’s Ball
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/November 19, 1865
Uncle Lige
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/November 28, 1865
A Graceful Compliment
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/December 10, 1865
San Francisco Letter
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/December 13, 1865
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/December 16, 1865
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/December 19, 1865
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/December 22, 1865
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/December 24, 1865
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/December 26, 1865
Virginia City Terr. Enterprise/December 31, 1865