Mark Twain

In a humorous sketch titled “A Mystery,” Mark Twain reports that he has been bedeviled by an impostor, a “double” traveling around the country and using the name Mark Twain to borrow money, run up unpaid hotel bills, and get “persistently and eternally drunk.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

In a humorous sketch titled “A Mystery,” Mark Twain reports that he has been bedeviled by an impostor, a “double” traveling around the country and using the name Mark Twain to borrow money, run up unpaid hotel bills, and get “persistently and eternally drunk.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

“The enthusiasm with which his lecture was everywhere greeted is still ringing throughout California, and now, that his foot is on his native heath, we may expect to see the very mountains shake with a tempest of applause,” cried the Territorial Enterprise,5 making sure to add that the Enterprise was where Sam Clemens had christened the name Mark Twain “and developed that rich and inexhaustible vein of humor which has made the title famous.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

“The enthusiasm with which his lecture was everywhere greeted is still ringing throughout California, and now, that his foot is on his native heath, we may expect to see the very mountains shake with a tempest of applause,” cried the Territorial Enterprise,5 making sure to add that the Enterprise was where Sam Clemens had christened the name Mark Twain “and developed that rich and inexhaustible vein of humor which has made the title famous.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

The name Mark Twain is as much a trademark, in its way, as Coke or McDonald’s or Mickey Mouse.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

The name Mark Twain is as much a trademark, in its way, as Coke or McDonald’s or Mickey Mouse.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

In due time they crossed into Switzerland and prepared to conquer the Alps. The name Mark Twain had become about as well known in Europe as it was in America.

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

At Oxford when he appeared on the street the name Mark Twain ran up and down like a cry of fire, and the people came running.

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

The name Mark Twain was first signed to a Carson letter, February

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

The name Mark Twain had not been thought of then, and probably no one prophesied favorably for the new-comer, who was small and feeble, and not over-welcome in that crowded household.

The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916