Aurora, Nev., 157-61, 163, 165-68, 177, 178, 183, 185, 189, 195, 290, 581n42
Austin, Franklin, 335
Austin, James C., 227, 229
Austin, Nev., 201, 217, 229, 246, 465
Austin, Samuel L., 335, 336
“Autobiography of a Damned Fool,” 38, 41, 47, 49
Autobiography, xiii-xiv, xviii, 21, 23, 33, 36, 49, 61, 68, 87, 107, 113, 132, 185, 239, 241, 255, 270, 271, 281, 292, 306, 339, 340, 364, 367, 389, 428, 476, 477, 481, 485, 486, 530,, 541, 552, 556, 577n30, 594n74
“Awful ---- Terrible Medieval Romance, An,” 214
Ayers, James J., 271, 322
Aziz, Abdul, 411-12
Azores, 408
B
Baalbec, Lebanon, 427
Backus, Charley, 268
Bacon, Delia, 103
Bacon, Francis, 103, 278
Baedeker, Karl, 414
Baetzhold, Howard, xiv, xxiv
Bal d’Opera, 378
Balaklava, Crimea, 380
Balboa, Vasco Núñez de, 319
Baldwin, Alexander (Sandy), 173, 231, 232, 246, 359, 360, 514
Baltimore, Md., 106
Bancroft, Hubert H., 171, 175, 555
Barnes, George, 195, 261, 262, 265, 266, 269, 271-73, 310, 315, 339, 346
Barnhart, Martin, 358
Barnum, P. T., 78, 431
Barnum’s American Museum, 77, 78, 79, 376, 390, 431
Barrett, Lawrence, 462
Barrett, Richard Ferrel, 6, 225
Barstow, William, 167, 168
Batavia, Ill., 494
Bateman, Ellen, 76
Bateman, Kate, 76
Bates, Edward, 39, 136
Baton Rouge Advocate, 300
Baton Rouge, La., 124
Bavaria, 284
Bay View Race Track, 265
Beach, Emeline, 403, 407, 435, 449, 451, 453, 467, 468
Beach, Moses S., 377, 398, 399, 400, 403, 404, 408, 417, 418, 422, 428, 430-36, 439, 453, 471, 504, 603n40, 603n45
Beadle & Adams, 300
Beard, Dan, 539
“Beasts in the Semblance of Men,” 266
Beauchamp, Gorman, 480
Beauregard, P. G. T., 361
Beebe, Henry, 51
Beebe, William, 17, 19, 33
Beecher, Catherine, 449, 477, 489
Beecher, Eunice, 449
Beecher, Henry Ward, 366, 376, 377, 379, 380, 396-97, 398-400, 449, 452, 454, 477, 479, 487, 517
Beecher, Isabella, 449, 453, 454
Beecher, John, 453
Beecher, Thomas K., 477, 514, 529
Beijing, China, 337, 455
Beirut, Lebanon, 380, 426, 427
Bell, Jesse K., 120
Bell, John, 129, 136
Bellagio, Italy, 412
Bellamy, Gladys, xx
Bellows, Henry W., 245, 246, 274-75, 378
Ben Franklin Book and Job Office, 88
Benham, A. C., 218
Benicia, Calif., 197
Bennett, Emerson, 141
Bennett, James Gordon, Jr., 452
Bennett, James Gordon, Sr., 440
Bennett, James O’Donnell, 38
Bennett, Joseph L., 18
Benson, Ivan, xxiii, 262
Benton, Thomas Hart, 54, 82, 85, 130, 457
Beñunes, Michael, 434
Benway, Abram, 185
Bergamo, Italy, 412
Bergh, Henry, 395
Berkove, Lawrence, 270
Berlin, Germany, 538
Bermuda, xxiv, xxvii, 106, 380, 436-37
Berra, Yogi, 78
Berret, Anthony J., xxiv
Berry, Anna, 448
Berry, Earl, 510-13
Berry, Thomas, 448
Bethany College, 31
Bethlehem, Palestine, 428, 429
Bible House, New York, 394-95
Biddle, Nicholas, 567n3
Biden, Charley, 592n24
Bierce, Ambrose, 462, 487, 534, 544
Bierstadt, Albert, 395-96, 603n41
Bigler, John, 153
Billings, Josh (Henry Wheeler Shaw), xx, 92, 495, 523
Birch, Billy, 268
Birch, George B., 417, 426, 427
Bird, Isabella, 334
Bird, Robert Montgomery, 77
Birdsall, George, 360
Bishop, Coleman, 528
Bismarck, Otto von, 537
Bixby, Horace, 94, 97, 98, 100-02, 104, 109, 114, 115, 123, 124, 127, 128, 130, 144-45
“Blabbing Government Secrets,” 70
Black Hole of Calcutta, 310
Black Warrior Mine, 152
Blair, Walter, xxvi
Blankenship, Becca, 51, 571n31
Blankenship, Bence, 24, 27, 30, 50, 414
Blankenship, Tom, 30, 50, 51, 59, 571n29, 571n31
Blankenship, Woodson, 50
Blasdel, Henry G., 359, 360, 365, 484
Bliss, Elisha, Jr., xxiv, 387, 440, 441, 442, 452, 453, 454, 458, 459, 466, 467, 469, 470-72, 478, 480, 498-99, 501-03, 506, 510, 512, 518, 520, 529, 533, 535, 539, 541-45, 547, 548, 551, 553, 555, 560
Bliss, Frank, 480, 498
Blitz, Bernard, 266-6, 314
“Bloody Massacre Near Carson, A,” 215-20
Bloomington, Ill., 72, 77
Blount, Roy, Jr., 135
Blue Grotto, 416
Bodine, Bob, 59
Bofinger, John, 119, 122
Boggs, John, 265
Bois de Boulogne, 468
Bok, Edward, 232
Bologna, Italy, 412, 432
Bombay, India, xxxi
Bonheur, Rosa, 395
Boone, Daniel, 5
Boonville, Mo., 134
Booth, Edwin, 212, 355, 376
Booth, Etta, 182
Booth, John Wilkes, 212
Booth, Junius Brutus, Jr., 212
Boston Advertiser, 506, 507, 522
Boston Carpet-Bag, 63, 64, 229
Boston Commonwealth, 558
Boston Courier, 285
Boston Evening Journal, 522
Boston Herald, 224, 340, 341, 362, 522
Boston Investigator, 183
Boston Lyceum Bureau, 500
Boston Olive Branch, 63
Boston Post, 398, 522
Boston Transcript, 286, 362, 388, 505, 522
Boston, Mass., 67, 349, 374, 436, 479, 500-01, 521-22, 526, 534, 556, 558, 596n5
Boucicault, Dion, 249, 390, 462
Bowen, Amanda Stone, 29, 30
Bowen, Bart, 24, 29, 68, 101, 109, 110, 114, 116, 117, 120, 123, 135, 240, 279
Bowen, Samuel (elder), 30, 99
Bowen, Elizabeth Campbell, 55-56, 279
Bowen, Mary, 68
Bowen, Sam, 24, 29, 68, 114, 123, 128, 129, 131, 135, 275, 279, 285, 399
Bowen, Will, 24, 25, 29, 30, 40, 53, 56, 67, 68, 94, 99, 101, 102, 123, 127, 144, 225, 279, 282, 315, 323, 327, 532
Bowles, Samuel, 141, 197, 204, 496, 579n9, 612n38
Bowman, George W., 121
Bowman, James, 348
“Boy’s Manuscript,” 26, 42, 131
Bradley, Jack, 215
Bradley, Pat, 215
Brady, Jennie, 68
Brady, Mathew, 553, 554
Brahm, Gabriel, xxiv
Brambilla, Elvira, 293-94
Branch, Edgar Marquess, xxiii, 61, 101, 102, 119, 120, 160, 161, 259, 265
Brashear, Minnie, xxiii, 38, 104
Brief, William, 294
Briggs, Artemisia, 29, 68, 69
Briggs, Bill, 56
Briggs, Emily Edson, 457
Briggs, John, 24, 29, 40, 47, 53, 56, 59, 68, 133
Briggs, Mary, 68
Bright, Susannah, 53
Bright, Thomas, 53
Brooklyn Athenaeum, 392
Brooklyn Eagle, 362, 388, 392, 398, 426, 444, 445, 524
Brooklyn Times, 524
Brooklyn Union, 393
Brooklyn, N.Y., 376, 392, 394-95, 398-400, 426, 445, 449, 453, 471, 514, 524, 537
Brooks, Noa
h, 273, 352, 381, 458, 467
Brooks, Van Wyck, xviii, xix, xx, xxvi
Brown, Beriah, 268
Brown, John, 500
Brown, Sam, 296
Brown, William, 102, 108, 109, 113, 114, 335
Brown’s Hall, Rockford, 493
Browne, Charles Farrar (“Artemus Ward”), xx, 64, 92, 174, 176, 207, 225-31, 280, 285, 290, 299, 300, 347, 349, 353, 357, 373, 388, 391, 392, 495
Browne, J. Ross, 63, 174, 204, 365, 393, 455, 457
Bryan, Charles H., 274
Bryant Park, New York City, 78
Buchanan, J. S., 59, 61
Budd, Louis J., xiv, xv, 40, 85, 135, 205
Buena Vista, Nev., mining district, 154
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 512
Buffalo Courier, 504, 512, 513, 557
Buffalo Express, 498, 504, 506, 510, 512-14, 516-17, 519-21, 527, 530, 533-37, 543, 546, 556-58
Buffalo, N.Y., xxiv, 77, 196, 479, 501, 512-14, 517, 519-20, 526-27, 529-31, 533-36, 540, 544, 551, 553-54, 558-61
Bulette, Julia or Juliette, 205, 465-66
Bull Run, first battle of, 139
Bull Run, second battle of, 184
Bullard, Henry, 406, 603n45
Bullion Mine, 180
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 355
Bunker Hill, 500
Bunker, Chang and Eng, 514
Buntline, Ned (Edward Z. C. Hudson), 43
Bunyan, John, xvii, 469
Burke, Martin J., 277, 298, 308-14, 363
Burlingame, Anson, 336-39, 343, 353, 443, 514
Burlingame, Edward, 336
Burning Moscow Mine, 290
“Burning of the Clipper Ship Hornet at Sea,” 339, 340
“Burning Shame, The,” 278
Burns, Anthony, 67
Burns, Iowa, 89
Burnside, Ambrose, 524
Burr, Aaron, 377
Burrough, Jacob, 86, 93
Bursley, Ira, 404-05, 408, 412
Bush, Harold K., Jr., 28, 132
Butler, Ben, 59, 444
Butler, George, 59
“By Rail Through France,” 467
Byng, Carl, 556, 557
Byron, Lord, 43, 278, 401, 514
C
Cable, George Washington, xxiv
Cadets of Temperance, 47-48, 52, 482
Cadiz, Spain, 434
Cairo, Egypt, 431
Cairo, Ill., 92, 98, 118, 121, 128
California State Asylum at Stockton, 307
Californian, 105, 224, 273-74, 275, 276, 282, 286, 299, 300, 305, 340, 346-47, 353, 381, 387, 469, 505, 592n26
Cameron, Simon, 130
Camfield, Gregg, xx, xxiii, xxvi, 518
Camp, Herman, 306, 319
Campbell, Alexander, 28, 30-33
Campbell, John, 193, 194
Campbell, Thomas, 28
Campbellites, 27, 28-31, 44, 56, 568-69n44
“Cap’n Simon Wheeler, Amateur Detective,” 7, 50, 120, 370, 405
Cape Ann, Mass., Advertiser, 525
Cape Hatteras, N.C., 372
Capernaum, Palestine, 430
capital punishment, xxiii, 550
Capital, 466, 554
Capitol, U.S., 79, 82, 198, 415, 443, 450, 553
Caples, William G., 32
Caprell, Madame, 125
Capri, island of, 416, 417
Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven, 370, 470
Capuchin Convent, 468
Cardwell, Guy, 105
Carleton, G. W., 299, 382-83, 594n74
Carlstroem, Catherine, xxiv
Carlyle, Thomas, 446
Carnegie, Andrew, xxi, 108
Caron, James, xxiv, 331
Carracci, Annibale, 413
Carson Appeal, 291, 294, 359, 360
Carson City Ladies’ Sanitary Committee, 359
Carson City Sanitary Ball Committee, 248, 249-50, 251, 255, 256
Carson City Silver Age, 144, 148, 152, 163, 166, 176, 183, 189, 209, 581n42
Carson City, Nev., 16, 138, 139, 143, 145, 146, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 163, 165, 175, 177, 184, 186, 187, 190, 194, 198, 200, 201, 211, 215-16, 220, 223-25, 230, 233, 234, 241, 245, 248-51, 256, 260, 287, 289, 290, 292, 307, 358-60, 362, 365, 455, 466, 514, 684n31
Carson Independent, 230, 231, 233
Carvell, George F., 88
Case Hall, Cleveland, 479, 494
Cash, Johnny, xxvi
Cass, Lewis, 82
Cataract House, Niagara Falls, 508
Cathédrale Notre Dame, 411, 468
Catlin, George, 540
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, The, 275, 276, 382, 383, 386-87, 391, 453, 506
“Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The.” See “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog,”
Celeste, Rosa, 356
Central Overland and Pike’s Peak Express Company, 139
Central Pacific Railroad, 151
Cervantes, Miguel de, 103
“Chambermaids,” 387
Chandler, Zachariah, 457
Chaparral Quails, 279, 529
Charles I, 3
Charles L. Webster and Co., 355
Charleston, S.C., 18
Charley (slave), 15, 16
Charlotte Republican, 492
Charlotte, Mich., 492
Chase, Salmon P., 149, 221
Chateau d’If, 412
Chauvel, O. V., 242
Chesterfield, Lord, 225
Chicago Inter-Ocean, 42
Chicago Republican, 443, 493
Chicago Times, 493
Chicago Tribune, 119, 300, 426, 493, 553
Chicago, Ill., 48, 77, 92, 172, 493, 498, 533, 558
Chimasso, Switzerland, 412
cholera, 9, 51, 55, 310, 347, 371-73, 395, 412, 416, 427, 432, 436, 582n50
Christy Minstrels, 126
Chronicle of Young Satan, The,” 50, 52, 268, 396, 519
Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, 413
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 428, 429
Church, Francis P., 553, 535, 559
Church, Frederic Edwin, 126
Church, John, 209, 223
Church, William Conant, 535
Church, William F., 406
Churchill, Winston, 422
Cincinnati Commercial, 450
Cincinnati Eclectic, 553
Cincinnati Enquirer, 398
Cincinnati Gazette, 362, 378, 553
Cincinnati, Ohio, 91, 92-93, 94, 152, 183, 306, 374
Citizen’s Mutual Coal Mining, Purchasing, and Sale Co., 513
City College of New York, 181
City of Memphis, 122, 123
civil service reform, 443
Civil War, xxviii, 44, 58, 59, 84, 86, 103, 127-38, 175, 238, 244, 276, 303, 314, 315, 320, 326, 340, 347, 361, 394, 440, 444, 452, 462, 471, 478, 496, 507, 518, 549
Civitavecchia, Italy, 380, 414
Clagett, Billy, 154, 155, 183, 184, 223, 230
Clapp, Hannah, 184, 185, 248
Clapp, Henry, 212, 299, 300
Clare, Ada, 212, 230, 234, 236
Clay, Henry, 12
Clayes, O. M., 354
Clayton, J. E., 162
Clayton’s mill, 160, 161, 162
Cleland, John, 103
Clemens Gold and Silver Mining Company, 158
Clemens, Benjamin (brother), 9, 14, 17, 50
Clemens, Clara (daughter), xviii, xix, xxxi, 34
Clemens, Henry (brother), 12, 20, 47, 59, 60, 61, 66, 73, 75, 88, 91, 104, 105, 108, 109-11, 112, 113-14, 577n30
Clemens, James, Jr. (Uncle Jim), 13, 24, 86, 111
Clemens, Jane Lampton (mother), xiv, xxv, 4-9, 11-34, 37, 45, 52, 55, 57, 59, 60, 71, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 88, 91, 95, 110, 124, 125, 127, 129, 132, 144-45, 157, 165, 189, 193, 194, 198, 205, 228, 229, 271, 275, 313, 315, 320, 323, 327, 341, 344, 366, 383, 386, 387, 388, 390, 398, 399, 448, 461, 475, 495, 503, 540, 549, 555, 568n44, 570n15
Clemens, Jean (daughter), xvi
Clemens, Jennie (niece), 105, 136, 184, 233-34, 248, 292, 514
Clemens, Jeremiah, 255, 336-37
Clemens, John Marshall (father), 4, 5-9, 11-35, 38, 42, 43, 45, 49, 52, 139, 233, 276, 306, 321, 446, 567n3, 569n54
Clemens, Langdon (son), 545, 553, 560, 561
Clemens, Margaret (sister), 8, 12-13
Clemens, Mary (Mollie) Stotts (sister-in-law), xvi, 87-90, 104, 105, 108, 109, 111, 122, 136, 138, 156, 184, 185, 205, 233, 244, 248, 250, 256, 290, 291, 292, 319-21, 327, 374, 378, 386, 442, 546-49, 454, 456, 458
Clemens, Olivia (Livy) Langdon (wife), xviii, xix, xxii, xxiv, xxv, xxxi, 106, 191, 387, 389, 408, 430, 446-48, 453, 454, 472-79, 481, 485, 490-503, 507-14, 520, 34, 539-47, 554-55, 558-61, 610n3, 611n5, 612n36
Clemens, Olivia Susan (Susy) (daughter), xix, xxiii, 474
Clemens, Orion (brother), xvi, xviii, xxiv, xxv, 7, 14-17, 19, 27-29, 31, 34-40, 45, 48, 57-63, 65-73, 75, 76, 78-80, 84, 86-90, 103, 104, 107, 111-12, 116, 122, 124-26, 134, 136-41, 143, 145-52, 156, 158-60, 162, 163, 165, 167, 168, 174, 183-90, 198, 220, 221, 223, 229, 232-34, 240, 241, 244, 247, 256, 261, 276, 287-92, 298, 306, 319-21, 357, 396, 399, 421, 442, 443, 455, 456, 470, 477, 482, 496, 509, 511, 537, 543, 545-49, 558-560, 572n54, 579n9, 584n31, 584n36, 596n3
Clemens, Pamela (sister). See Moffett, Pamela.
Clemens, Pleasant Hannibal (brother), 8
Clemens, Samuel B. (grandfather), 3, 4
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne.
anti-Catholicism, 28-29
anti-Chinese prejudice, 269-71, 282
anti-Irish prejudices, 81, 262, 269, 294, 513-14
birth, 11
boyhood in Hannibal, xxvi, xxxi, 14, 17-73
capital punishment, views on, xxiii, 550
childhood in Florida, Mo., 11-13
Civil War and, 55, 86, 127-38
courtship of Olivia Langdon, xxxii, 191, 472-78, 481-90, 495-98, 501, 503, 514, 521-534, 525-27, 529, 526, 611n5
drinking, 75, 95, 192-93, 204, 207, 219, 228, 249, 263, 302, 310, 380-81, 397, 444, 449, 481-83, 486-89, 608n11
edits Buffalo Express, 498, 504, 506, 510, 512-14, 516-17, 519-21, 527, 530, 533, 535-37, 543, 546, 556-58
feud with James L. Laird, 250, 251-55
health, 24-26, 29, 55, 94, 133, 204-07, 302, 316, 331, 380, 488
jailing, 310, 394
journalism, 166-69, 177-82, 186-88, 194, 196-209, 214-24, 226-34, 238-55, 257, 261, 77, 282, 292-93, 295-98, 301-17, 323-42, 344-46
lecturing career of, xiv, 90, 142, 158, 231-32, 260, 325, 335, 347-66, 374, 384-92, 445, 449-50, 454, 462-66, 469, 472, 479-81, 490-95, 500-01, 505, 520-29
mining career of, 152, 154-62
on opera, 125, 196, 224, 274, 292-94, 346, 594n61
pedophilia, 105-07
pilot license, 115-16
piloting career, 98-128
plagiarisms, 80, 410, 421-22, 429, 556
practical jokes, xxi, 238-39, 361-62, 504
profanity of, 406-07, 483, 494
pseudonyms, xiv, xxii-xxiii, 70, 71, 91-93, 114, 117-19, 163, 167, 190-92, 226, 581n44, 582n50
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