“will come and want”: Lewis Leary, ed., Mark Twain’s Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893–1909 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969), 83.
“it cannot make”: Ibid., 89.
“got knocked flat”: Ibid., 95–96.
“that would have been foresight”: Ibid., 98.
“stand by for a cyclone!”: Ibid., 99–100.
“at as low”: Ibid., 104.
“an absolutely sure”: Ibid., 107.
“spent two francs”: Ibid., 100.
“knocked every rag”: Ibid., 108.
“I must be there”: Ibid.
“with just barely”: Ibid., 109.
“diphthongs, fractions”: Ibid., 110.
“was a marvelous invention”: Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography, Vol. III (New York: Chelsea House, 1980), 991.
“though it would”: Richard Zacks, Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain’s Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour (New York: Doubleday, 2016), 44.
“If we can rent”: Leary, Correspondence with H. H. Rogers, 118.
“is to teach myself”: Ibid., 118–19.
“To that”: Ibid., 119.
“I never had a friend”: Ibid., 112.
“Every day”: Ibid., 4.
“Why ask Rogers?”: Ibid., 7.
“take a breath”: Zacks, Chasing the Last Laugh, 45.
21. “MONEY FOR A MONUMENT”
“bondage of debt”: Resa Willis, Mark and Livy: The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him (New York: Atheneum, 1992), 232.
“acres of figures”: Kenneth R. Andrews, Nook Farm: Mark Twain’s Hartford Circle (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950), 231.
“I guess I am”: Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography, Vol. I (New York: Chelsea House, 1980), 409–10.
“I hope your business troubles”: Richard Zacks, Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain’s Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour (New York: Doubleday, 2016), 30.
“This time”: Willis, Mark and Livy, 225.
“lectured and robbed”: Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography, Vol. II (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912), 79.
“after which”: Willis, Mark and Livy, 225.
“constant unceasing adulation”: Ibid., 218.
“I am sure”: Ibid., 220.
“What had started”: Zacks, Chasing the Last Laugh, 161.
“I appreciate”: Lewis Leary, ed., Mark Twain’s Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893–1909 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969), 306.
“For the first time”: Ibid., 310.
“I hope you”: Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography, Vol. III (New York: Chelsea House, 1980), 1055–56.
“retire gracefully”: Leary, Correspondence with H. H. Rogers, 283.
“This way out”: Ibid., 284.
“I wish you would”: Ibid., 286.
“a second American embassy”: Willis, Mark and Livy, 248.
calls fraudulent: Zacks, Chasing the Last Laugh, 23–24.
“as one of the first”: “The Hero as Man of Letters,” New York Times, October 30, 1900.
“It is as an American”: Ibid.
22. “YOU CANNOT LOSE A PENNY”
“renewed youth”: Resa Willis, Mark and Livy: The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him (New York: Atheneum, 1992), 257.
“Among us”: Lewis Leary, ed., Mark Twain’s Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893–1909 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969), 445.
“pure albumin”: Ibid., 505.
“acted like poisons”: Ibid.
“implored them all”: Ibid., 506.
“Yes—take it as medicine”: Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography, Vol. III (New York: Chelsea House, 1980), 1151.
“The scientific testimonials”: Fred Kaplan, The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography (New York: Doubleday, 2003), 576.
“feed the world’s hungry”: Willis, Mark and Livy, 254.
“automatically punches”: Leary, Correspondence with H. H. Rogers, 337.
“merely expecting”: Richard Zacks, Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain’s Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour (New York: Doubleday, 2016), 365.
“could get my living”: Leary, Correspondence with H. H. Rogers, 328.
“I’ve landed”: Ibid., 327.
“Competition would be”: Ibid., 338.
“I do not feel”: Peter Krass, Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends: The Business Adventures of Mark Twain, Chronic Speculator and Entrepreneur (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2007), 226.
“or with wool”: Leary, Correspondence with H. H. Rogers, 343.
“was about time”: Ibid., 436.
“It’s as good as”: Ibid., 445.
“five or six fingers”: Zacks, Chasing the Last Laugh, 382–83.
“would consider”: Leary, Correspondence with H. H. Rogers, 560.
“Mark Twain is”: “Receiver Wants to See Mark Twain,” New York Times, January 30, 1908.
“It is”: Gary Scharnhorst, ed., Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006), 660.
“If I had kept out”: Leary, Correspondence with H. H. Rogers, 561.
“Do be careful”: Kaplan, The Singular Mark Twain, 595.
23. “TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS. . .”
“broken down”: Richard Zacks, Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain’s Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour (New York: Doubleday, 2016), 342.
“If Mark Twain”: Ibid., 343.
“The report of my illness”: Ibid.
“well ahead of his time”: “8 Branding Tactics Marketers Can Learn From Literary Legend Mark Twain,” Advertising and Marketing Blog, MDG Advertising, September 27, 2013, www.mdgadvertising.com/blog/8-branding-tactics-marketers-can-learn-from-literary-legend-mark-twain/.
“had ‘platform’”: Tom Bentley, “Mark Twain’s 10-Sentence Course on Branding and Marketing,” MarketingProfs, July 15, 2013, www.marketingprofs.com/articles/2013/11152/mark-twains-10-sentence-course-on-branding-and-marketing.
“Once he copyrighted himself”: Laura Skandera Trombley, “America’s First Modern Celebrity,” The Daily Beast, March 20, 2010, www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/03/20/americas-first-modern-celebrity.html.
“I cannot say”: Mark Twain’s Speeches (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910), 341.
“My axiom is”: Ibid.
Index
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A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Adams, Henry, 7
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain), 105–6, 107, 110, 113–14, 123, 125, 192
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain), 81–82, 167
Allen, Woody, 6
Amalgamated Copper, 153
American Claimant, The (Twain), 140–41
American Plasmon Company, 184–85
American Publishing Company, 61, 67–68, 78, 104, 173, 189
Andrews, Kenneth, 78
Armour, Philip, 28
B
baby-bed clamp, 108–10, 129
Bagehot, Walter, 67
Bastiat, Frederic, 118
Beecher, Henry Ward, 78, 130–32
Bell, Alexander Graham, 89, 90
Bentley, Tom, 190–91
Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG), 13–14
Bixby, Horace, 19–22, 23, 24, 25
blind lead, found and lost, 43–47, 55
Bliss, Elisha, 61, 67–70, 78, 104
Bliss, Frank, 95
book illustrations, 95–100, 106
Bowers, H. C., 92–93
Brooks, Elisha, and Brooks brothers, 29
Buffalo, New York, 65–66, 75, 77
Buffalo Daily Express, 65, 75
Buffett, Warren, 153
Built to Last (Collins and Porras), 13–14
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Burton, Nathaniel J., 134
C
Camp, Herman, 58–59
Carnegie, Andrew, 4, 28, 29, 144, 174–75, 184
Carnegie, Margaret, 184
carpet weaving, 181–83, 189
Carson City, Nevada, 29–30, 33, 35, 38, 55
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, The (Twain), 57–58
Century Company and Century magazine, 111–12, 160, 173
Charles I, King, 5
Charles L. Webster & Company
Beecher book planned by, 130–32
financial troubles of, 134–36, 139–43, 149–50, 155, 156–57, 159, 160–61, 171
formation of, 104–7
Grant’s memoir published by, 1–2, 111, 113, 134
Hall as head of, 137, 139–40, 142–43, 146, 155, 159
Huckleberry Finn published by, 113–14
pope’s biography published by, 125–30
Scott’s embezzlement from, 132–34
Webster’s resignation from, 136–37
Charles Pratt & Company, 152
Chasing the Last Laugh (Zacks), 135–36, 161, 173–74, 176–77
Chicago Herald, 162, 163
Civil War, 1, 24–25, 27–28
Clemens, Clara, 67, 81, 171, 173, 174, 177, 189, 192
Clemens, Henry, 14–15
Clemens, Jane Lampton, 5, 11, 15, 19, 23, 46, 49, 95, 123
Clemens, Jean, 67, 108, 188–89
Clemens, John Marshall, 5–6, 7, 8, 20, 70–71
Clemens, Mollie, 59, 62, 100, 123
Clemens, Olivia (Livy) Langdon
coal business earnings, 93, 94, 140, 146
family finances and, 122, 140, 141–42, 149–50, 171, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177
Hall and, 139
health of, 141, 179–80, 188
moves to Europe and, 93–94, 141–42
Twain’s financial troubles and, 156, 157, 158–59, 160–62, 165, 166, 167, 169
Twain’s marriage to, 62, 63–66, 67
unhappiness in Buffalo and move to Hartford, 75, 77, 79, 80–81
Webster and, 103–4, 127, 128–29
Clemens, Orion
Clemens Gold and Silver Mining Company and, 47–49
inventions of, 8, 70–72
mother living with, 123
as newspaper owner and editor, 8
as print shop owner, 11
real estate management by, 40, 58–59, 65, 94–95, 100
as secretary to Nevada Territory, 29–30, 55
Twain’s cocaine trade aspirations and, 14–15
Twain’s communications with, 23, 58, 96, 97, 122, 143
Twain’s inventions and, 74, 83, 106
Clemens, Pamela. See Moffett, Pamela Clemens
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 3. See also Twain, Mark
Clemens, Susy, 67, 174
Clemens Gold and Silver Mining Company, 47–49
Clement, Geoffrey, 5
coal business, 93, 94, 140, 146
coca plant and cocaine, 12–13, 14–16
Collins, James, 13–14
Colonel Crossman (steamboat), 22, 24
Colonel Sellers (play), 82
Comstock Lode and mines, 29–30, 35, 51, 54, 86
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A (Twain), 122, 135
Consolidated Gas Company, 152
content marketing, 190
Crane, Susan, 75, 81, 150
“cundrums,” 91–92
Cunneen, Conor, 190
D
Dana, Charles, 125
Deere, John, 7
disruption and disruptive innovation, 24–25
Dunne, Finley Peter, 169
E
Eastern Business College, 193–94
Edison, Thomas, 189
elastic strap invention, 73–75
Elmira, New York, 63, 75, 94, 150, 167–68, 172, 188
Europe, 60–61, 79, 93–94, 141–42, 146, 161, 162, 174, 176, 188
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon (Herndon), 12–13
F
Fact and Date Game, 106–7
Fisher, Roger, 20
Florida, Missouri, 3–4
Flowing Bowl, The (Schmidt), 135
Following the Equator (Twain), 173, 174
Ford, Henry, 14
Fredonia, New York, 98, 110–11, 128, 137
Fuller, Frank, 91–92
G
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 54
Garrett, Garet, 7
Gates, Bill, 153
Gilded Age, The (Twain and Warner), 3, 81, 82
Gladwell, Malcolm, 4, 73, 144, 152
Gould, Jay, 4, 28
Grant, Fred, 133
Grant, Julia Dent, 1, 2, 9, 113, 125
Grant, Ulysses S., 1–2, 110, 111–13, 114, 123, 125, 126–27, 134, 137
Greeley, Horace, 72–73
Greenfield, Rebecca, 74–75
H
Hall, Frederick J.
as assistant at Webster & Company, 134, 136, 137
as head of Webster & Company, 137, 139–40, 142–43, 144, 146, 150, 155, 159
Twain’s communications with, 145, 146, 147, 149
Hall, Jesse, 145–46
Hannibal, Missouri, 3–4, 8–9, 22, 27
Hannibal Western Union, 9
Harper’s Weekly, 85
Hartford, Connecticut
Colt Armory in, 77, 92, 115, 116
Pratt & Whitney Company in, 77, 120, 123–24, 158
Twain’s acquaintances in, 115, 131, 134
Twain’s financial troubles and, 93, 140, 150, 166–68
Twain’s home and life in, 77–82, 93, 94, 103–4, 122, 140
Twain’s investments in, 85–86, 93, 115
Hartford Accident Insurance Company, 85–87
Hawaii (Sandwich Islands), 58, 59–60, 151
Hay, John, 72
Hearst, George, 35
Herndon, William, 12–13
Higbie, Cal, 42, 43–47
Hill, David, 133
Hinckle, Warren, 52
Houghton, Josephine, 7
Howells, William Dean
pope’s biography and, 126, 130
on The Innocents Abroad, 61
on Twain and Livy after world tour, 179
Twain’s communications with, 94, 106–7, 114, 140, 141, 174, 180–81
visits to Twain’s Hartford home, 80, 81
I
ice-house factories, 87
Incas, 12–13
Independent Watch Company, 111
Innocents Abroad, The (Twain), 60–62, 67, 70, 81, 104, 173
iron industry, 7
J
Jackass Hill, 55–56, 57
Jacquard loom, 181–83
James R. Osgood and Company, 104
Jones, John Percival, 86, 87–88, 123
K
Kaolotype Engraving Company, 96–100, 106, 193
Kaplan, Fred, 75
Kaplan, Justin, 3, 70
Keokuk, Iowa, 11–12, 55, 123
Keynes, John Maynard, 6
Kinney, John D., 31–33
Knight of Pius uniform, 127–28
L
Laffan, William, 121
laissez-faire capitalism, 6
Lake Tahoe (Bigler), 30–31, 38
Langdon, Charles, 63, 75, 146
Langdon, Jervis, 63, 64–65, 66, 75
Leary, Lewis, 153
Leavenworth, Zeb, 25
Leo XIII, Pope, 125–26, 127, 128–30
Library of American Literature, 135–36, 159, 160
Life of Pope Leo XIII, The (O’Reilly), 129–30
Life on the Mississippi (Twain), 100, 104
Lincoln, Abraham, 24–25, 29
Linotype machine, 121, 162, 163, 165
M
Marion Rangers, 27–28
Mark and Livy (Willis), 172
Mark Twain, Business Man (S. Webster), 106
Mark Twain Company, 191–92
Mar
tin, Joseph, 14, 15
Matson, Owen, 190
McClellan’s Own Story (McClellan), 134
McCormick, Cyrus, 7
Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman (Sherman), 134
Mergenthaler, Ottmar, 121, 162, 163, 165
Mills, C. Wright, 5
Moffett, Pamela Clemens, 21–22, 25, 27, 40, 49, 71, 95, 100–101, 111
Moffett, William, 21–22
Morgan, J. P., 4, 28, 153
Morse, Samuel, 7
Mount Morris Bank, 142–43, 149, 150, 159–60, 177
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (Kaplan), 3
N
National Bell Telephone Company, 89
Nebraska (steamboat), 25, 27
Nevada Territory, 29, 36, 54, 55, 86
New Orleans, Louisiana, 15–17, 23, 24
New York City, 144, 149, 150–53, 167–68, 177, 188
New York Herald, 57, 60, 174, 175–76, 187
New York Journal, 187–88
New York Times, 145, 152, 153, 177–78, 185
New York Tribune, 60, 72–73, 103, 121, 161
New York Vaporizer Company, 92
Nook Farm, 78
Nook Farm (Andrews), 78
O
O’Reilly, Bernard, 125, 129
Outliers (Gladwell), 4, 152
P
Paige, James W.
company stock purchased from, 157–58
lawsuit, 145–46
machine tinkering by, 121–22, 123–24, 136, 142, 155, 163
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