Maybe like you, I got gobbled up in Carson City’s third annual Mark Twain Days, and could not feel any better for the ...

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 ...

Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorn Clemens) died 115 years ago, on April 21, 1910. He is widely regarded as one of America’s finest authors, especially in humor and travel writing. Twain was 74 when he ...