| To find a petrified man, or break a stranger's
leg, or cave an imaginary mine, or discover some dead Indians in a Gold
Hill tunnel, or massacre a family at Dutch Nick's, were feats and calamities
that we never hesitated about devising when the public needed matters of
thrilling interest for breakfast. The seemingly tranquil ENTERPRISE office
was a ghastly factory of slaughter, mutilation and general destruction in
those days. - "Mark Twain's Letters from Washington. Number IX," Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, March 7, 1868 |
 Clemens the reporter. Frontispiece for American Artists edition of ROUGHING IT Harper & Bros., 1913 |
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