The complete online text of Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Mark Twain.

An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distinguished contemporaries. Biographers have emphasized th...

Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had known by the Mississippi River in those halcyon years be...

In the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was another in a long series of migrations which the family...

Abstract This study contributes to our understanding of health in late nineteenth-century communities in Ontario and the major factors contributing to the high mortality of the period. The focus of the study is Belleville, Ontario, from 1876 to 1885. Life expectancies at...

Just south of the international boundary between Montana and Canada's North-West Territories, on November 7, 1881, Lieutenant Gustavus Doane and a detachment of the Second U.S. Cavalry arrested Chief Foremost Man (Nekaneet) and seven other Canadian Crees. After confiscating the Crees' guns, knives, and...