A little experience in Nevada and surrounding country, in the early sixties, leading up to my acquaintance with Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain" : typescript, [1907?].

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A little experience in Nevada and surrounding country, in the early sixties, leading up to my acquaintance with Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain" : typescript, [1907?].

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A biographical reminiscence of Higbie's 1860 journey from Tuolumne County, Calif., to the silver mines in Washoe County, Nev., his experiences there and in San Francisco, and his friendship and business partnership with Mark Twain.

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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Higbie, Calvin H., d. 1914.

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Calvin H. Higbie was a friend of Mark Twain in Aurora, Nev. in the 1860s. After making, and subsequently losing, a great fortune in Nevada, Higbie settled in Greenville, Calif., where he was a civil engineer. He died on Sept. 29, 1914. Twain's Roughing it is dedicated to Higbie. From the description of A short description leading up to my acquaintance with Saml. L. Clemens, Mark Twain : holograph, [187-?]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 50104310 Fr...