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 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.
Photo Credits:
[Preface]
I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I only claim to know how a story ought to be told. There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind—the humorous. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.
Nothing much about the tour, Mark Twain recalls a fox hunt and the master of hounds he had meet some two decades earlier while in England. He also recounts an experience with the customs officer while entering Italy to take up residence in Florence. He had a letter from the Consul General that eased his passage, and allowed his tobacco through.
On a train, Twain met a man that came from England when he was 20 hoping to earn £200 within 5 years. Twain then lears the man helped discover copper mines and is "rich enough to buy a city". Twain also meets a man trying to corner the kangaroo leather crop for American shoes. In regards to religions in Australia: About 64 roads to the other world. You see how healthy the religious atmosphere is. Anything can live in it. Agnostics, Atheists, Freethinkers, Infidels, Mormons, Pagans, Indefinites they are all there.
INTRODUCTION:
Australia is responsible for a tenth of all British trade yet its population counts for four million of the emoire's 400 million people. Twain takes a 17 hour train ride from Melbourne to Adelaide. He meets a judge traveling from Sydney to Broken Hill, both in New South Wales. Although the towns are but 700 miles apart, the judge travels 2000 miles, through Victoria and South Australia, to get there. Mark Twain is amazed at the tracking skills of the Australian aborigines.
