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The Life of Mark Twain

Page 101

by Gary Scharnhorst


  Mark Twain Boyhood Home, 24, 25

  Mark Twain Company, xviii

  Mark Twain Lake, 11

  “Mark Twain on the Colored Man,” 294

  Mark Twain Papers, xvi, xviii, xix, 558

  Mark Twain pseudonym, origin of, 190-92

  Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance, 553, 557, 560

  Mark, Karl, xxv

  Marryat, Frederick, 43, 370

  Marseilles, France, 379, 409, 412, 432, 468

  Marsh, Andrew J., 185, 220, 221, 484

  Marsh, Grant, 121

  Martin, Joseph S., 91

  Marvel, Ik (Donald G. Mitchell), 43

  Marx, Groucho, 472

  Marysville Appeal, 352, 508

  Marysville, Calif., 356, 362, 465

  Mason, Lowell, 155

  Masonic Lodge, 139

  Masters, Edgar Lee, 50, 135

  Mattson, J. Stanley, xx

  Maui, island of, 326-28

  Mauna Loa, 334

  Maura Kea, 335

  Maximilian I, 307-08

  Mayo, Frank, 199, 265

  Mazeppa, 212-14, 220, 234, 235, 265, 301, 358, 589n42

  McAleer, Patrick, 530

  McBride, James, 323

  McCarthy, Denis, 167, 173, 175, 176, 179, 189, 228, 237, 354-57, 360-61

  McCluskey, Mike, 191

  McComb, John, 271, 313, 348, 366, 381, 398, 458, 531

  McCord, J. H., 115

  McCormick, Wales, 32, 47

  McCullough, Joseph, xxiv, 340

  McDaniel, Jimmy, 47

  McDavid, Dennis, 65-67

  McDermid, Dennis, 65-67

  McDowell, E. D., 58

  McDowell, Irwin, 304

  McDowell, Joseph Nash, 57, 58

  McElhinney, Jane, 212, 230, 234, 236

  McEwen, Arthur, 176, 177, 179, 180, 181, 195

  McFarland, Daniel, 517-18, 613n68

  McFarland, James, 22, 23

  McFarland, John J., 92

  McGrath, Billy, 215

  McGrew, William, 271, 592n24

  McIntire-Strasburg, Janice, xxiv, 340

  McKay, John W., 179

  McKee, William, 136, 320

  McKenna, James, 266

  McKinley, William, xvi

  McMahon, John, 193

  McMurry, Pet, 47

  McReynolds, Jerry, 67, 68, 77

  McReynolds, John, 67

  Mead’s Hall, Lansing, 492

  Meadow Lake, Calif., 290, 291, 357

  Meadow Lake, Calif., Morning Sun, 290, 292, 361

  measles, 24-26, 29, 55

  meat-packing plants in Hannibal, 48-49

  Medici Chapel, 412

  Medici, Cosimo de’, 497

  Melville, Herman, xxxvi, 63, 274, 275, 327, 345

  Memphis Avalanche, 300

  Memphis, Mo., 136

  Memphis, Tenn., 109-10, 111, 113, 114, 119, 120, 135, 509, 542

  Menken Shaft and Tunnel Company, 236

  Menken, Adah Isaacs, 212-14, 220, 234-37, 265, 358, 376, 533

  Mercantile Library Association, NY, 573n5

  Mercantile Library Hall, St. Louis, 384

  Mercantile Library, San Francisco, 469

  Merchant of Venice, The, 87

  Meredith, Charles, 56

  Meredith, Hugh, 34, 56

  Meredith, John, 47, 59, 131

  Merry Tales, xvii

  mesmerism, 36-37

  Messent, Peter B., xxiv, 283, 487

  Metropolitan Hall, Indianapolis, 492

  Metropolitan Hall, Iowa City, 493

  Metropolitan Hotel, New York, 373, 389, 390, 484

  Metropolitan Theater, Sacramento, 463

  Metzerott Hall, Washington, D.C., 449

  Mexican-American War, 58, 59, 131, 132, 140, 246

  Meyer, Harold, 135

  Michael, Grand Duke, 424

  Michelangelo, 413

  Michelson, Bruce, xxviii, 506, 538

  Midnight Mission, New York, 395

  Mighels, Henry, 359

  Milan Cathedral, 414, 420

  Milan, Italy, 412, 413, 418

  “Military Movements in Nevada Territory,” 581n42

  Milk Grotto, 429

  Millard, Bailey, 177

  Miller, Joaquin, 212, 273

  Miller, Mary, 68

  Miller, Samuel Freeman, 457

  Miller, William, 26

  Millerites, 26-27

  Mills, Charley, 131

  Mills, Clark, 81

  Mills, John Harrison, 510

  Milner, Henry M., 212

  Milton, John, 103

  Milwaukee Sentinel, 300

  minstrelsy, 36, 115, 126, 214, 268-69, 271, 292, 294, 418

  miscegenation, 248, 249, 250, 360

  Missouri Compromise, 9, 82, 84

  Missouri Courier, 45, 48, 54, 61, 62

  Missouri State Penitentiary, 19

  Mitchell, Donald Grant (“Ik Marvel”), 43

  Mitchell, Josiah, 338-40, 343-45

  Mitchell, Maggie, 379, 396

  Mobile Bay, Battle of, 128

  Modesto, Calif., 247

  Moffett, Annie (niece), 68, 94, 113, 129, 136, 383, 529

  Moffett, Pamela (sister), 8, 14, 20, 27, 29, 33, 35, 57, 58, 68, 76, 78, 80, 81, 88, 110, 111, 113, 115, 119, 126, 129, 144, 157, 189, 193, 194, 205, 231, 244-45, 266, 271, 288, 292, 313, 315, 320, 323, 327, 341, 344, 366, 383, 387, 390, 399, 447, 461, 475, 476, 479, 482, 498, 503, 509, 510, 522, 529, 540, 544, 546, 555

  Moffett, Samuel (nephew), 28, 134, 339, 426

  Moffett, William Anderson (brother-in-law), 68, 76, 94, 110, 111, 113, 119, 129, 145, 244-45

  Molly Maguires, 514

  Molokai, island of, 332

  Monk, Hank, 393

  Mono Lake, 152, 168-69, 500, 520

  Monroe, Mich., 77

  Monroe, Penn., Democrat, 419

  Montana, 470

  Montgomery, Ed, 104, 122, 130

  Montreal, Canada, 101

  Moore, Thomas, 293

  Moorman, Rachel, 4

  Morgan Gold Mine, 279

  Mormons, 61, 140-41, 378, 431

  Morrill, Paul, 315

  Moss, Mary, 48, 56, 193

  Moss, Neil, 56, 193

  Moss, Russell, 48

  Moulton, Julius, 407, 418, 426, 433, 434, 603n45

  Mulford, Prentice, 273, 353

  Muller, John, xxiv

  Munich, Germany, 283

  Murdoch, Frank H., 199

  Murphy, John, 399

  Murphy, Margret, 143, 144, 153

  Muscatine Journal, 75, 80, 81, 85, 87, 136, 421

  Muscatine, Ia., 84, 88

  Museum of the Patent Office, 82

  Music Hall, Boston, 521, 521, 559

  Music Hall, New Haven, 525

  Muybridge, Eadweard, 610n4

  “My Campaign against Grant,” 133

  “My Debut as a Literary Person,” 345, 346

  “My Hog Ranch” (poem), 205-06, 285

  “My Platonic Sweetheart,” 107, 326

  “My Ranch” (poem), 205-06, 285

  Myers, W. F., 214, 238

  Mysterious Stranger, The, 19, 50, 56, 268

  Mystick Krewe of Comus, 115

  N

  Nabokov, Vladimir, xxvi, 105

  Napa Valley Reporter, 277

  Naples Observer, 416

  Naples, Italy, 409, 415, 417-19

  Napoleon III, 308, 411

  Napoleon, Ark., 110

  Napoleon, Tenn., 100

  Napoleon, tomb of, 411

  Nasby, Petroleum V. (David Ross Locke), xx, 92, 457, 484, 495, 496, 500, 523, 531

  Nash, Tom, 47, 52

  Nast, Thomas, 450

  Natchez, Miss., 15, 118

  Nation, 441, 556

  Nauvoo, Ill., 61

  Nazareth, 427, 428

  Nebraska, 128

  Neligan, William H., 468

  Nelson, David, 18

  Neosho, Mo., 130

  Nesbit, Benjamin, 603n45
/>   neurasthenia, 447

  Nevada City, Calif., 349, 356, 357, 362, 465

  Nevada City, Calif., Transcript, 183, 188, 191, 259, 307, 356-57, 361

  Nevada Constitutional Convention, first, 220-25

  Nevada Constitutional Convention, second, 287

  Nevada State Legislature, first, 289

  Nevada Territorial Legislature, first, 146-48, 150-52, 154, 167

  Nevada Territorial Legislature, second, 162, 185-86, 189-90

  Nevada Territorial Legislature, third, 230-33

  Nevada/California border dispute, 189

  New Britain, Conn., 525

  New Falls City, 104, 114, 122

  New Haven Palladium, 300

  New Haven, Conn., Morning Journal and Courier, 525

  New London, Mo., 67, 131

  New Madrid earthquakes, 13-14

  New Orleans Crescent, 117-18

  New Orleans Daily Delta, 183

  New Orleans Picayune, 286

  New Orleans Times, 398

  New Orleans True Delta, 116, 117

  New Orleans, Battle of, 81

  New Orleans, La., 15, 18, 93, 94, 104, 105, 108, 109, 100, 101, 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 120, 121, 124, 125, 127, 128, 191, 386, 444

  “New Wildcat Religion, The,” 31

  New York Academy of Design, 395

  New York Academy of Music, 378, 390

  New York Asylum for the Blind, 395

  New York Atlas, 276

  New York Citizen, 388

  New York Clipper, 224, 392

  New York Commercial Advertiser, 390, 426

  New York Dispatch, 288

  New York Evening Express, 388

  New York Evening Post, 340, 388, 504, 540, 548

  New York Evening Press, 505

  New York Herald, 339, 340, 373, 381, 388, 392, 393, 398, 424, 426, 439, 443, 452, 505, 553

  New York Leader, 391

  New York Public Library, 78

  New York Sun, 262, 377, 391, 398, 430, 433, 435, 439, 504, 517, 603n40

  New York Sunday Mercury, 229, 276, 378

  New York Times, 388, 391, 397, 450

  New York Tribune, xxiii, 309, 329, 340, 345, 374, 392, 393, 398, 399, 419, 424, 426, 431, 432, 434, 435, 440, 443, 446, 450, 467, 496, 505, 516, 517, 537, 548-51, 559

  New York Weekly Review, 305, 382, 387

  New York Weekly, 391, 495

  New York World, xv, 167, 390, 391, 450

  New York, N.Y., 36, 73, 77, 78, 84, 124, 149, 176, 182, 188, 196, 212, 228, 236, 268, 305, 343, 353, 360, 362, 366, 371, 373-401, 411, 436, 437, 442, 452, 454, 458, 459, 461, 470, 479, 499, 500, 503, 526

  New Zealand, 183

  Newark Advertiser, 490, 525

  Newark Courier, 490

  Newark Opera House, 490, 525

  Newark, N.J., 490

  Newcomb, Mary Ann, 40, 41, 570n12

  Newell, George Henry (“Orpheus C. Kerr”), 234, 236, 388

  Newell, Julia, 398, 407, 409, 431, 433, 434, 603n45

  Newsboys’ Lodging House, 395, 603n40

  Newton, Mass., Journal, 524

  Newtonville, Mass., 524

  Newtown, N.Y., 501

  Niagara Falls, N.Y., 508, 514

  Niblo’s Garden, 375, 390

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, xxv

  Nightingale Mining Company, 180

  No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger, 41, 47, 269

  “Noble Red Man, The,” 142

  Nook Farm, 453

  Norris, Frank, 154

  North, John W., 222, 223, 232

  Norton, Emperor, I, 267-68

  Norton, Joshua, 267-68

  Norwalk, Ohio, 486, 494

  Norwich, Conn., 524

  Norwich, N.Y., 490

  Noteware, Chauncey N., 288, 359

  Notre Dame Cathedral, 411, 468

  Nyack, N.Y., 64

  Nye, Bill, 79

  Nye, Emma, 544, 545, 554-55, 559

  Nye, James W., 137, 144, 145, 148, 157, 166, 167, 183, 186, 188, 223, 231, 232, 241, 255, 389-91

  Nye, John, 160, 161

  Nye, Tom, 144, 153, 157, 232

  O

  O’Lanus, Corey (John Stanton), 392

  O’Reilly, Miles (Charles Graham Halpine), 383, 388, 399

  Oahu, island of, 322, 327, 341, 344

  Oakland News, 365

  Oakland, Calif., 197, 365, 462

  Occidental Hotel, San Francisco, 196, 204, 260, 261, 263, 264, 265, 281, 285, 350, 373, 461, 484

  “Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d,” 84

  Odessa, Ukraine, 422

  Ogden, Richard L., 300

  Ogdensburg, N.Y., 527

  “Oh, She Has a Red Head,” 72

  Ohio Farmer, 388

  Oil City, Penn., Derrick, 548

  Old Baptist Cemetery in Hannibal, 33, 111

  Old Bowery Theater, 376

  Old Masters, 395, 413-14, 467, 497

  Old Ship of Zion Methodist Church, 27

  Old South Church, Boston, 500

  “Old Times on the Mississippi,” 36, 38, 49, 86, 93, 99, 100, 108, 305, 576n9

  “Oldest of the Republics: Venice, Past and Present, The” (lecture), 469

  Oliver, Gus, 155

  Olmstead, Frederick Law, 512

  “On Gov. ---- Who Loves to Talk Nonsense,” 167

  “1002d Arabian Night,” 214

  “Only Reliable Account of the Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The,” 298

  Onstine, John, 156

  “Open Letter to Commodore Vanderbilt,” xxi, 507, 508

  Opera House, Elmira, 477, 480

  Ophir Mine, 174, 180, 199, 221, 222, 290

  Optic, Oliver (W. T. Adams), 63

  Ormsby House, Carson City, 143, 358

  Ormsby, Margaret, 187

  Ormsby, William M., 143

  Ormsley, Bettie, 68

  Othello, 81, 242, 249, 265, 314, 315, 358, 536

  Ottawa, Ill., Free Trader, 493

  “Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands.” See Sandwich Islands lecture.

  Outcroppings, 285, 286, 287, 305

  Overland Monthly, 466-67 504, 540, 555-57

  Owego, N.Y., Gazette, 527

  Owego, N.Y., Times, 527

  Owsley, Nannie, 44

  Owsley, William P., 23-24, 56

  P

  Packard’s Monthly, 443

  “Pah-Utes, The,” 224

  Paige typesetter, 296

  Paine, Albert Bigelow, xiii, xiv, xviii, xix, xxiii, xxvi, xxvii, 5, 8, 9, 17, 26, 28, 36, 50,, 83, 88, 90, 93, 99, 134, 155, 219, 292, 311, 336, 337, 339, 407, 427, 436, 439, 476, 517, 581n44

  Paine, Thomas, 103-04, 132

  Palermo, Italy, 417

  Pall Mall, Tenn., 8

  Palmer, John, 193, 194

  Palmyra Female Seminary, 31

  Palmyra, Mo., 18, 30, 33, 45, 54, 62, 64

  Panama City, Panama, 470

  Panic of 1837, 12, 567n3

  Panic of 1857, 102

  Panic of 1873, 548

  Pantheon, Rome, 411

  Paris Female Seminary, 31

  Paris map, 537-38

  Paris, France, 101, 197, 212, 236, 353, 379, 410-12, 431, 433, 468, 537-38, 541

  Paris, Mo., 12

  Park Congregational Church, Elmira, 446, 471, 477

  Parker House, Boston, 500, 558

  Parker, Charley, 302-03

  Parker, Theodore, 522

  Parthenon, Athens, 418

  Parton, James, 377, 480

  Parton, Sarah Willis (“Fanny Fern”), 63, 377

  Patent Office, 82, 442, 456

  Patmore, Coventry, 487

  Pattee, Fred Lewis, 135

  Patterson, Ella, 89, 386

  Paul Jones, 93, 100

  Paul, Almarin B., 174, 245

  Pawtucket, R.I., Gazette and Chronicle, 525

  Pearl Harbor, Oahu, 321, 324, 343

  Pearl, William H., 268

  Peasley, Tom, 191, 209, 236, 358

  Penn, Arzelia, 68 />
  Pennsylvania, 102, 104, 105, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112, 113, 335, 338, 373

  “People and Things,” 514, 516

  Peoria, Ill., Transcript, 493

  Père-Lachaise Cemetery, 468

  Perkins, Charles Enoch, 453

  Perry, Edward C., 260

  Perry, Jack, 208, 209, 360

  Perry, Thomas Sergeant, xviii

  “Personal Habits of the Siamese Twins,” 79

  Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, xxii, 79, 214, 242, 334

  Petaluma, Calif., Journal and Argus, 364

  Peterson’s, 63

  “Petrified Man, The,” 182-83

  Pettit, Arthur G., xix, 20, 127

  Peyton, Thomas F., 110

  Pfaff’s Tavern, 212, 220, 374, 500

  Pfersdorff, Hugo, 156, 157

  Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 470

  Philadelphia American Courier, 64

  Philadelphia as It Is, 80, 421

  Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 387, 388, 524, 525

  Philadelphia Inquirer, 79, 81, 388, 524

  Philadelphia North American, 81, 83

  Philadelphia Press, 398

  Philadelphia Public Ledger, 82, 83, 183, 387

  Philadelphia Telegraph, 362, 387, 388, 392, 426, 553

  Philadelphia, Penn., 18, 79-84, 149, 314, 374, 479, 534, 537, 552

  Phillips, Adelaide, 293

  Phillips, Horatio (Raish), 152, 157, 158, 159, 163, 165, 581n42

  Phillips, Wendell, 347, 386, 471, 479, 508

  Phoenix, John (George Horatio Derby), 43, 64, 220, 388

  Phrenological Journal, xv

  phrenology, 37, 89

  Piatt, Donn, 554

  Picasso, Pablo, 262

  Pierce, Franklin, 62

  “Pilgrim Life” (lecture), 462, 466

  Pilots’ Association Club, 116

  Piper, John, 191, 192

  Piper’s Opera House, Virginia City, 466

  pirated editions, xvi, xxii, 300, 374, 387, 388, 505-06, 557, 560

  Pisa, Italy, 412, 432

  Pitti Palace, 412, 415

  Pittsburgh Commercial, 521

  Pittsburgh Dispatch, 480

  Pittsburgh Evening Chronicle, 521

  Pittsburgh Gazette, 480, 521

  Pittsburgh Post, 480

  Pittsburgh, Penn., 383, 409, 480, 521

  Pixley, Carrie, 187, 225, 230

  Placerville, Calif., 166

  plagiarisms, 80, 410, 421-22, 429, 556

  Platt’s Hall, San Francisco, 362, 462

  “Play Acting Over the Mountains,” 224

  Plessy v. Ferguson, xxvii

  Plumas County, Calif., 189

  Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 376, 378, 404, 407

  Plymouth Collection of Hymns, 399, 404-06

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 88, 276, 300

  Point Pleasant, Mo., 100

  Polar Star Masonic Lodge No. 79, 116

  Pomeroy, Samuel, 542

  Pompeii, 416, 417, 422, 455

  Pool of Bethesda, 429

  Pope, Alexander, 103, 400

  Pope, John, 133, 184

  Portage County Democrat, 499

  Porter, Josias Leslie, 429

  Portland Oregonian, 183, 340, 392

 

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