From Sam Clemens to Mark TwainSanitizing the Western Experience

Eichin, Carolyn Grattan

doi:10.5325/marktwaij.12.1.0113

From Sam Clemens to Mark Twain: Sanitizing the Western Experience

Carolyn Grattan Eichin

carolyn grattan eichin holds bachelor's and master's degrees in history from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. While completing the course work for a Ph.D. in the history of the American West, she published articles in the Utah Historical Quarterly and Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. Her interest in Twain's life in Nevada stems from her seventeen-year career as an adjunct faculty member for the Community College of Southern Nevada where she taught American history, Nevada history, and anthropology.

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Abstract

Sam Clemens adopted his famous nom de plume while writing for the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada Territory, during the early 1860s. Reconsidering the available documentation from the time period, including contemporary comments on the nom de plume, provides a revised theory on its adoption.

penname, nom de plume, Nevada, saloon

2014

The Pennsylvania State University

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