By McAvoy Lane…Maybe like you, I got gobbled up in Carson City’s Third Annual Mark Twain Days, and could not feel any better ...

Below is an excerpt from Mark Twain's "Roughing It" recalling the afternoon of July 4, 1863 in Virginia City. This passage was first published in 1872. Late one summer afternoon we had a rain shower.

The Territorial Enterprise building where Twain began his writing career burned down in a fire nearly a decade after the ...