Mark Twain's lecture in Petoskey, Michigan. The Northern Arrow train and a note on the demise of the passenger pigeon. \
http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/onstage/wrldschd.html
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Eccentricities of Genius by Major Pond
The Cleveland show, a balcony full of boys; Pelee Island, vineyards in Canada; Docking in Detroit; Ships of the Northern Steamship Company; Mackinac Island; Sault Ste Marie
http://wnyheritagepress.org/photos_week_2007/northern_steamship/northern_steamship.htm
The route mapped is based on:
Mark Twain and company depart Sault Ste Marie aboard the steamship F.S. Faxton and travel to Mackinac Island. He speaks that night at the Grand Hotel.
Eccentricities of Genius 202-4
Samuel L. Clemens, aka “Mark Twain”, was a traveler, a man of the world. His best selling book was a travelogue of sorts, “The Innocents Abroad”. He was good at illuminating the problems of society. He coined the phrase “The Gilded Age”, using it for the title of his first novel. It was a time of great disparity in wealth in these United States, as well as the rest of the world. But he, too, had a taste for the “good life” and strove to acquire wealth. He married into wealth. He married for love as well, to be fair to all parties.
Mark Twain travels from Buffalo, New York to Cleveland, Ohio. Along the way the video touches on the first arrival of the railroad in Dunkirk, the Erie Gauge War and the Ashtabula bridge disaster.
Exchange Street Station, Buffalo: http://ethw.org/File:New_York_Central_Railroad_Depot.jpg
Mark Twain, his wife Livy and daughter Clara, along with his manager Major Pond and his wife, travel from Elmira, New York to Buffalo, New York on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad. This is the beginning of his 1895 journey around the world.
Thanks to Thomas J. Reigstad, Emeritus Professor of English SUNY Buffalo State for publishing his review of "Chasing the Last Laugh". That's how I found out that Twain went to Buffalo and not to Salamanca.
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