by Ben Tarnoff
newspapers, 13–14, 17, 51, 55, 77
New York, N.Y., 228
Broadway on a Rainy Day (Edward and Henry T. Anthony), 134
Harte and, 211
Twain’s return to, 133, 135–36
Webb’s return to, 122, 137–38
New York Evening Post, 219
New York Home Journal, 159
New York Round Table, 105, 113, 143
New York Saturday Press, 110, 113–14
New York Sun, 241
New York Sunday Mercury, 75
New York Times, 180, 240–41, 253
New York Tribune, 115, 141
Nixon, Richard, 252
Northern Californian, 24, 25, 26
Occidental Hotel, 85
“Old Times on the Mississippi” (Twain), 240, 250
Once a Week, 226
Osgood, James R., 211, 212, 214
Outcroppings (Harte, ed.), 117–21, 123, 142, 147–49
Overland Monthly, 148–51, 150, 152, 154–63, 166–73, 179, 182, 185, 186, 191, 213, 214, 251, 255
Coolbrith and, 155–56
Harte and, 149–50, 152, 154–63, 166–73, 179, 188, 190–92, 200, 238
ownership change of, 173
Stoddard and, 155–56, 169
Overland Trinity, 156, 158, 169–70, 184, 192
Pacific Islands, 92
see also Hawaii
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 149
Pacific Railway Act, 18, 136
Page Act, 189
Paine, Albert Bigelow, 206
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 254
Panic of 1873, 227, 228, 245, 250
Parsloe, Charles, Jr., 241–44, 246
Perfect Day, and Other Poems, A (Coolbrith), 253
Perry, Enoch Wood, Jr., 92
Pfaffians, 53–55, 72, 113
Phi Beta Kappa Society, 58, 210
Philadelphia Inquirer, 211
Pickett, William, 33
Pikes, 74
“Plain Language from Truthful James” (“The Heathen Chinee”) (Harte), 187–90, 187, 193, 202, 204, 219, 241, 246
Platt’s Music Hall, 132
Poems (Harte), 190
Poems (Stoddard), 136–37, 142–43, 144, 146–48, 182
“Poet of Sierra Flat, The” (Harte), 210–11
Pollock, Edward, 32
“Prodigal in Tahiti, A” (Stoddard), 214
Progress and Poverty (George), 163
Putnam’s Magazine, 190
Quaker City voyage, 141–42, 177
Twain on, 141–42, 151, 175, 177
Twain’s letters about, 151–55
Quarry Farm, 205–6
railroads, 17–18, 133, 136, 149–50, 145, 162–63, 165–66, 179, 185–86, 198, 227, 245
Chinese workers and, 136, 164, 187
subscription publishing and, 177
Reagan, Ronald, 67
Reconstruction, 239–40
“Relieving Guard” (Harte), 67
Roman, Anton, 117–18, 137, 148–51, 158, 173, 255
Roughing It (Twain), 111–12, 180, 189, 203–8, 217, 219, 222, 228, 231
Routledge & Sons, 229
Sacramento Daily Bee, 84, 120–21
Sacramento Daily Union, 52, 61, 119, 125–26, 132, 145
San Francisco, Calif., 3–4, 5, 16–17, 21, 27, 39, 50–51, 55–57, 63–64, 83–84, 185, 245, 251
bachelor life in, 55
Civil War and, 18–19, 55, 63–64
Coolbrith’s arrival in, 35–36
earthquake in, 159, 160–61, 190
economy of, 186
Harte’s arrival in, 26, 192
Harte’s departure from, 192–93, 197–98
Lick House in, 10, 41, 46, 60
Lincoln’s death and, 94
Montgomery Street in, 76
newspapers in, 17, 26, 55, 77
railroads and, 149–50, 154, 162–63, 165–66, 186
Stoddard’s arrival in, 38–39
Sydney-Town, 39
Telegraph Hill, xii, 43
Twain’s departure from, 133
Twain’s visits and move to, 2–4, 9–11, 17, 45–46, 71–72, 75, 77, 85, 87–88
San Francisco Alta California, see Alta California
San Francisco Call, 244
San Francisco Chronicle, 215, 216, 229, 238, 250
San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle, 111, 118–19, 132, 154
San Francisco Evening Bulletin, 169
San Francisco Examiner, 104
San Francisco Morning Call, 17, 41, 45, 46, 72, 84, 85–88, 89–90, 104, 111, 112, 127, 153
San Francisco News Letter and Commercial Advertiser, 184
San Francisco Police Department, 104, 111
San Francisco Youths’ Companion, 111
Sanitary Commission, 68–70, 132
Sappho, 32
Saturday Club, 199–200
Saturday Press, 54, 65
Scott, Winfield, 1
Scribner’s, 201
Sellers, Isaiah, 12
Sewall, G. T., 16
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 93, 141–42, 184
slavery, 69, 239–40
Smith, Joseph, 32–33
Society of California Pioneers, 171
“South-Sea Idyl, A” (Stoddard), 182–83
South-Sea Idyls (Stoddard), 214–15, 249, 251
Springfield Republican, 130, 158
Stanford, Leland, 186
steam power, 13
Stegner, Wallace, 57
Stoddard, Charles Warren, 4, 36–40, 43, 46, 54–55, 91–93, 97, 116, 118, 123–24, 136–37, 142–46, 148, 163, 181–85, 191, 214–16, 249–52, 255, 256
arrival in San Francisco, 38–39
autograph album of, 48–49, 123
Bierce and, 184
at Brayton Academy, 47–48, 49–50, 84–85, 92, 122
Californian and, 84, 93
Catholicism of, 143–44, 169, 184
character of, 37–38
at City College, 40
Coolbrith and, 64–65, 122–24, 144–46, 169–70, 184, 213–16, 252–54
death of, 254
famous writers contacted by, 123–24
Golden Era and, 39–40, 41, 47, 48, 64
at grandfather’s farm in New York, 39
Harte and, 48–49, 97, 124, 137, 146, 147, 150, 155–56, 169, 181–83, 189, 191, 212, 214
Harte compared with, 37, 38
in Hawaii, 4, 85, 91–93, 124, 143, 169–70, 182, 214
homosexuality of, 4, 38, 144, 182
Howells and, 214–16
Kane-Aloha and, 92
King and, 37, 40, 47, 48, 67
Menken and, 51–52, 53, 54, 183
Overland Monthly and, 155–56, 169
Perry and, 92
Pip Pepperpod pen name of, 36, 37, 40, 47, 93
Poems, 136–37, 142–43, 144, 146–48, 182
“A Prodigal in Tahiti,” 214
singing of, 192
“A South-Sea Idyl,” 182–83
South-Sea Idyls, 214–15, 249, 251
theatrical debut of, 144–45
Twain and, 124, 127, 128, 133, 137, 181, 216, 250
as Twain’s secretary, 229–32, 234–36, 235, 250
Webb and, 51
Whitman and, 38, 182, 183, 192, 215
Stoddard, Ned, 39
Stoker, Dick, 100
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 204
subscription publishing, 177, 180, 207
Suez Canal, 186
Sydney-Town, 39
telegraph, 120
Telegraph Hill, Sa
n Francisco, xii, 43
Tennyson, Alfred, 123
Territorial Enterprise, see Virginia City Territorial Enterprise
Thoreau, Henry David, 2, 59, 95, 201
transatlantic travel, 177
Trollope, Anthony, 123, 223
“True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It, A” (Twain), 239, 240
Twain, Mark, 2, 5, 8, 9–16, 21, 23, 24, 27, 28, 33, 38, 40–41, 43, 45–47, 55, 60–61, 68–72, 74, 85–91, 99, 100–105, 110–17, 124–33, 145, 151–55, 163, 168, 173–81, 188, 191, 197, 203–9, 215, 216–19, 226, 227–37, 249, 255–56
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 115, 234, 236
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 28–29, 234, 236
Ah Sin, 241–46
birth of, 2, 11–12
“A Bloody Massacre near Carson,” 61–62, 68, 72
on Book of Mormon, 32
in Buffalo, 203–4
at Buffalo Express, 179, 203
at cabin on Jackass Hill, 91, 99, 100–102, 108
on California, 133
Californian and, 89, 90–91, 93, 101, 103, 104–5, 111, 113, 138
Carleton and, 138–39, 142, 146
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And Other Sketches, 139–40, 142, 146, 151, 175
childhood memories of, 232–34
Coolbrith and, 82
death of, 254
desert described by, 56
in Elmira, 205–6, 208
in England, 222–24, 227–32, 234
fame of, 216–17
The Gilded Age, 228–29, 233, 234, 240
Gillis and, 71, 86, 90, 91, 103, 131, 132
Golden Era and, 41, 46–47, 60, 64, 72, 89
Harte and, 60, 88–89, 97, 102–3, 104, 114, 117, 120–21, 124, 127, 128, 130–33, 139, 140, 142, 148, 151, 153–55, 167, 173–74, 179–81, 189, 193, 197, 203, 204, 206–9, 212, 216–17, 220–22, 238, 240–44, 246–48
in Hartford, 204–5, 208, 236
in Hawaii, 124–27
hoaxes of, 15–16, 61–62, 68–70, 72, 85–86, 87, 104, 132
Hornet sinking and, 125–26
Howells and, 217–20, 233, 236, 239–41, 244, 246–47, 256
The Innocents Abroad, 125, 174–75, 176–79, 184, 197, 201, 203, 204, 206–9, 217, 222, 228
“Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog,” 101–2, 103–4, 105, 110–11, 113–15, 117, 121, 126, 130, 138, 139, 167, 178, 218, 239
Laird and, 71, 72
lecture notes of, 235
lectures of, 126–33, 129, 140–41, 153, 154–55, 178, 227, 229–31, 234
letter to brother Orion from, 112–13
on Menken, 53
miners and, 101–2, 103
miscegenation story of, 69–70, 72, 85–86, 104, 132
money problems of, 111, 113, 132
morality of, 104
Morning Call and, 17, 41, 45, 46, 85–88, 89–90, 104, 111, 112, 127, 153
in Nevada, 10, 11, 14–16, 17, 68–72, 74
“Old Times on the Mississippi,” 240, 250
pen name of, 12, 42, 47
personality of, 9
“Petrified Man” story of, 15–16
Quaker City correspondence of, 151–55
Quaker City voyage of, 141–42, 151, 175, 177
return to New York, 133, 135–36
Roughing It, 111–12, 180, 189, 203–8, 217, 219, 222, 228, 231
San Francisco Police Department and, 104, 111
San Francisco visits and move, 2–4, 9–11, 17, 45–46, 71–72, 75, 77, 85, 87–88
schooling of, 50
son’s death and, 220–21
speaking manner of, 9
Stoddard and, 124, 127, 128, 133, 137, 181, 216, 250
Stoddard as secretary of, 229–32, 234–36, 235, 250
subscription publishing and, 177, 180, 207
suicide attempt of, 112
Territorial Enterprise and, 11, 14–16, 41, 53, 61–62, 68–72, 86–87, 104, 111, 124–25, 131, 138
“A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It,” 239, 240
as typesetter, 12, 13
“An Unbiased Criticism,” 103
Ward and, 75
Webb and, 51, 105, 137–40, 142
“Whereas,” 90–91
Tweed, Boss, 228
Two Men of Sandy Bar (Harte), 240–41
Two Years Before the Mast (Dana), 210
“Unbiased Criticism, An” (Twain), 103
Uniontown, Calif., 24–26
Vietnam War, 1
Virginia City, Nev., 15–16, 44, 45, 62, 68
Twain’s homecoming in, 131–32
Virginia City Daily Union, 69–70, 71
Virginia City Evening Bulletin, 61, 127–28, 129
Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 11, 14–16, 17, 41, 53, 68, 70, 71, 74–75, 86–87, 104, 111, 124–25, 131, 138, 205
Harte and, 119
Stoddard and, 123
Twain’s “A Bloody Massacre near Carson” in, 61–62, 68, 72
Twain’s miscegenation hoax piece in, 69–70, 72, 85–86, 104, 132
Waddy, Frederick, 226
Ward, Artemus, 72–75, 78, 82, 86, 95, 103, 110–11, 113, 116, 126, 131, 138, 223
Twain and, 75
Warner, Charles Dudley, 204, 228
Washington, George, 177
Webb, Charles Henry, 51, 65–66
Californian and, 78, 80, 84, 89, 93, 122
Coolbrith and, 80–81, 82
Golden Era and, 51, 63, 65, 78, 80
New York return of, 122, 137–38
Twain and, 51, 105, 137–40, 142
West, 1–2, 4, 5, 13, 73–74, 109, 178, 179, 185
beliefs about, 57
see also frontier
Western Union, 12
“What the Railroad Will Bring Us” (George), 162–63, 186
“Whereas” (Twain), 90–91
Whitman, Walt, 4, 22, 24, 42, 113
Leaves of Grass, 38, 54
Menken and, 54
“Pioneers! O Pioneers,” 2
Stoddard and, 38, 182, 183, 192, 215
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 58
Wilde, Oscar, 252
Williams, Andrew, 23
Wilmington, J. W., 71
Wiyot massacre, 24–26, 60, 147
Wrist, Thomas, 129
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