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To: Elsie
Post 115 was adapted from Chapter 16 of Mark Twain's early travelogue Roughing It, part of which was spent in pioneer-era Salt Lake City.

It's a fun read for anyone interested in the history of the West, although determining what portions Mr. Clemens wrote were true, what were exaggerated, and what were completely made up are a mystery to many general readers.

Chapter 24, the account of the "Mexican Plug", is considered to be one of the finest pieces of humor he wrote.

Download available from Gutenberg.

121 posted on 10/13/2005 7:15:44 AM PDT by fzx12345 (This space is unintentionally left blank.)
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To: fzx12345

Twain is one of my favorites!

Have ya ever seen Hal Holbrook do his impersonation of him?


122 posted on 10/13/2005 1:16:18 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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