Roughing It - Chapter 10
scott 7 April 2011
A Proposed Fist Fight From Behind the Door Slade as Executioner An Unpleasant View Unappreciated Politeness Snake in the Grass

We are introduced to a rather notorious Division Agent, Slade. His adventures related here were perhaps too violent for some of the attending audience at this reading. Several vanished before it was through.

Reading Date
April 5, 2011
SL Venue
Fate Gardens

Twain Chapter Comments

scott Tue, 12/04/2018 - 12:07

According to an Supplement to the on-line edition of Roughing It at the Mark Twain project, Sam Clemens and Orion had breakfast with Slade at the Rocky Ridge Station, just east of South Pass. Apparently they did not know anything about him at that time. Consequently, Twain's colorful narrative about the last cup of coffee is fiction.

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