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Adams, Henry, 200, 201
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 115, 234, 236
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain), 28, 234, 236
Ah Sin (Twain and Harte), 241–46
Ajax, 124–25
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 208
Alta California, 62, 84, 87, 115, 132, 140, 141, 158, 173, 242
Twain’s Quaker City voyage letters to, 151–55
America, 133
American Humour (Waddy), 226
American Publishing House, 177
Angel’s Camp, 101–2, 103, 105, 110, 113, 114, 116
Anthony, Edward, 134
Anthony, Henry T., 134
Atlantic Monthly, 31, 58, 130, 149, 158, 159, 167, 200–201, 208, 214, 215, 217, 233, 236, 240, 250
Harte and, 59–60, 61, 96, 147, 179, 188, 190, 198–99, 201–2, 210–12, 219–20, 238–40
The Innocents Abroad and, 176, 178, 180
Bancroft, George, 212
Barnes, George, 90, 127
Bartlett, William C., 213
Beach, Chileon, 36–37
Beckwourth, Jim, 33
Beckwourth Pass, 33
Beecher, Henry Ward, 141–42
Benton, Thomas Hart, 28–31, 58, 95, 133
Bierce, Ambrose, 184–85, 187, 188, 190, 200, 253
Biglow Papers, The (Lowell), 130
Bliss, Elisha, Jr., 151, 152, 154, 174, 177, 203–4, 207, 217, 221, 229, 240, 243, 250
“Bloody Massacre near Carson, A” (Twain), 61–62, 68, 72
Bohemian Club, 251–52
Bohemians, 42–43, 53–55, 58–59, 64–66, 72, 78–79, 88, 95, 116, 119, 136, 181, 252, 255–56
Book of Mormon, 32
Boone, Daniel, 109
Booth, John Wilkes, 94
Boston, Mass., 199–200, 224
Bowen, Will, 233
Bowman, James F., 251
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 84, 96
Brayton Academy, 47–48, 49–50, 84–85, 92, 122
Broadway on a Rainy Day (Edward and Henry T. Anthony), 134
Browning, Robert, 223
Bryant, William Cullen, 58
Buchanan, James, 99
Buffalo Express, 179, 203
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 35
California, 5, 42, 57, 65, 121, 185–86, 245
Californian and, 84
Civil War and, 17–19, 30–31, 42, 83, 94, 99, 163, 185
Coolbrith’s arrival in, 33
economic downturn in, 185–86
gold rush in, 2–3, 4, 13, 17, 27, 29, 33, 42, 55, 56, 59, 74, 148, 161, 163, 185
Harte’s arrival in, 23
Harte’s view of, 59–60, 79, 147–49, 151, 162, 168, 180, 191
Indian Wars in, 25
literacy rate in, 13, 136
Los Angeles, 34–35
public image of, 120
railroads and, 136, 149, 162–63, 165–66, 185–86
San Francisco, see San Francisco, Calif.
Twain on, 133
Uniontown, 24–26
Californian, 77–79, 82, 84, 88, 93, 95–96, 118, 121, 122, 137, 156, 184, 199, 207, 209
California as presented in, 84
Coolbrith and, 80–83, 93, 98–99
Harte and, 78–79, 88–89, 93, 95–97, 99, 102, 116, 117, 119, 122, 139
Stoddard and, 84, 93
Twain and, 89, 90–91, 93, 101, 103, 104–5, 111, 113, 138
Webb and, 78, 80, 84, 89, 93, 122
California Weekly Mercury, 153
Carleton, George W., 113
Harte and, 139, 146–47
Twain and, 138–39, 142, 146
Carmany, John H., 173, 188, 238
Carsley, Robert, 34–35
Carson City, Nev., 11, 56, 132
Sanitary Commission ball in, 68–70
Casey, James, 39
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And Other Sketches, The (Twain), 139–40, 142, 146, 151, 175
Chicago, Ill., 198
Chinese, 104
attacks on, 186–88, 245–46
immigration restrictions on, 189
race riot and, 245–46
railroad workers, 136, 164, 187
Civil War, 1, 2, 5, 10, 14, 17, 18–19, 24, 30, 36, 51, 55, 79, 91, 95, 131, 133, 141, 177, 179, 240
California and, 17–19, 30–31, 42, 83, 93, 99, 163, 185
Coolbrith and, 79–80
economy and, 135, 184, 197, 227, 229
San Francisco and, 18–19, 55, 63–64
Twain’s miscegenation hoax and, 68–69
Clapp, Henry, Jr., 53–54, 113
Clemens, John Marshall, 111
Clemens, Langdon, 203, 204, 206
death of, 220–21
Clemens, Mollie, 70, 112
Clemens, Olivia Langdon “Livy,” 175–76, 180–81, 203–5, 208, 220, 222–24, 227–31, 234, 236, 243, 244
Twain’s marriage to, 181, 223, 256
Twain’s meeting of, 175
typhoid fever of, 203, 204, 205, 206
Clemens, Orion, 12, 14, 62, 68, 70, 71, 203, 205, 206
Twain’s letter to, 112–13
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, see Twain, Mark
Clemens, Susy, 220
Comstock Lode, 15, 16, 17, 42
“Concepción de Argüello” (Harte), 219
“Condensed Novels” (Harte), 96, 139
Condensed Novels and Other Papers (Harte), 146–47
Coolbrith, Ina Donna, 4, 32–36, 38, 43, 55, 63, 64–65, 79–83, 97–98, 116, 118, 121–23, 136, 145–46, 148, 158, 163, 184, 191–92, 212–15, 252–56
arrival in California, 33
arrival in San Francisco, 35–36
Californian and, 80–83, 93, 98–99
as California’s poet laureate, 254
childhood of, 32–34
child’s death and, 35
Civil War and, 79–80
death of, 255
Golden Era and, 41–42, 65
Harte and, 82–83, 97–98, 121, 122, 155–56, 168–72, 189, 191–92, 212, 215–16
Harte’s swapping of limericks with, 170–71, 192
home of, 121
King and, 67
in Los Angeles, 34–35
marriage of, 34–35
“The Mother’s Grief,” 35, 98
name of, 35
Overland Monthly and, 155–56
A Perfect Day, and Other Poems, 253
poetry of, 34, 79, 80–82, 83, 136, 145, 171–72, 191, 213
salon hosted by, 121–22
schooling of, 50
Stoddard and, 64–65, 122–24, 144–46, 169–70, 184, 213–16, 252–54
Twain and, 82
Webb and, 80–81, 82
Westward journey of, 33
Cooper, James Fenimore, 29, 96
Cooper Union, 140–41
Cora, Charles, 39
Crane, Susan, 205
Crane, Theodore, 205
Crittenden, John, 1
Crocker, Charles, 186
Crockett, Davy, 109
Daily Democratic Press, 94
Daily Evening Bulletin, 73
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 210
Darwin, Charles, 123
De Quille, Dan, 62, 70, 99, 100
DeVoto, Bernard, 109
Dickens, Charles, 23, 26, 88, 9
6, 115, 180
Great Expectations, 40
Distrest Poet, The (Hogarth), 22, 24
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 23
Eliot, Charles William, 210
Emancipation Proclamation, 69, 72
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 58, 59, 95, 200, 201
Stoddard and, 123
Evans, Albert S., 87
Every Saturday, 196, 199, 204, 208
Fields, James T., 31, 59, 60, 158, 167, 208, 209–10
Fields, Osgood, and Company, 188, 190
Fireside Poets, 58
Fiske, John, 200
Franklin, Benjamin, 24
Frémont, Jessie Benton, 28–31, 36, 41, 66, 98
Harte and, 30, 59, 60, 99
Frémont, John Charles, 29–30
frontier, 109–10, 115–16, 178, 179
humor of, 110, 114, 167, 180, 217, 255
see also West
Fuller, Frank, 141
Galaxy, 136, 190
Gauguin, Paul, 92
George, Henry, 16, 163
“What the Railroad Will Bring Us,” 162–63, 186
Gilded Age, The (Twain), 228–29, 233, 234, 240
Gillis, Billy, 100
Gillis, Jim, 91, 99, 100, 101, 102
Gillis, Steve, 71, 86, 90, 91, 103, 131, 132
Golden Era, 36, 41–43, 47, 48, 54, 55, 62–67, 78–79, 121, 156, 207, 210
Coolbrith and, 41–42, 65
Harte and, 26–28, 30, 41, 42, 60, 63, 64, 73, 78–79, 99
Menken and, 52, 53
Stoddard and, 39–40, 41, 47, 48, 64
Twain and, 41, 46–47, 60, 64, 72, 89
Webb and, 51, 63, 65, 78, 80
Gold Hill News, 61, 71, 105
gold miners, 101–2, 103, 108
gold rush, 2–3, 4, 13, 17, 27, 29, 33, 42, 55, 56, 59, 74, 148, 161, 163, 185
Goodman, Joe, 14, 15, 16, 205–6
Gould, Jay, 184
Grant, Ulysses S., 1, 18, 93, 228
Great Expectations (Dickens), 40
Greeley, Horace, 13
Gridley, Reuel Colt, 70
Hannibal Journal, 62
Harper’s Monthly, 126, 201
Harper’s Weekly, 136
Harte, Anna Griswold, 96–98, 122, 172, 198, 221
Harte, Bret, 4, 20–28, 20, 31, 35, 40, 43, 48, 54–56, 66, 78, 116–21, 147–48, 155–63, 166–73, 181, 187–93, 196, 197–203, 209–12, 215, 221–22, 236–44, 246–48, 251, 252, 255, 256
Ah Sin, 241–46
at Army of the Potomac reunion, 209–10
arrival in California, 23
arrival in San Francisco, 26, 192
Atlantic Monthly and, 59–60, 61, 96, 147, 179, 188, 190, 198–99, 201–2, 210–12, 219–20, 238–40
Bierce and, 184
as “the Bohemian,” 42–43
California as viewed by, 59–60, 79, 147–49, 151, 162, 168, 180, 191
Californian and, 78–79, 88–89, 93, 95–97, 99, 102, 116, 117, 119, 122, 139
Carleton and, 139, 146–47
“Concepción de Argüello,” 219
“Condensed Novels,” 96, 139
Condensed Novels and Other Papers, 146–47
Coolbrith and, 82–83, 97–98, 121, 122, 155–56, 168–72, 189, 191–92, 212, 215–16
Coolbrith’s swapping of limericks with, 170–71, 192
death of, 254
death of third son, 147
decision to be a writer, 24
departure for Europe, 247–48, 249
departure from San Francisco, 192–93, 197–98
drinking of, 241–42
earthquake and, 160, 161, 190
failures of, 209–11, 238
fame and ego of, 173, 174, 179, 181, 189, 190, 198, 211, 238–39
as father, 96–97, 147
Frémont and, 30, 59, 60, 99
first poem of, 22, 24
at Gillis’s cabin, 100
Golden Era and, 26–28, 30, 41, 42, 60, 63, 64, 73, 78–79, 99
“The Heathen Chinee” (“Plain Language from Truthful James”), 187–90, 187, 193, 202, 204, 219, 241, 246
Howells and, 198–200, 202–3, 209–12, 218–20, 239, 246–47
The Innocents Abroad and, 153–54, 155, 174, 179
King and, 19–20, 31, 36, 59, 67, 83, 99
lectures of, 236–37
Lincoln’s death and, 94–95
“The Luck of Roaring Camp,” 156–58, 160–62, 166–67, 170, 179, 199, 219, 237
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches, 179, 180, 188, 190
marriage of, 96–98, 122, 172, 198, 221
at Northern Californian, 24, 25, 26
Outcroppings, 117–21, 123, 142, 147–49
Overland Monthly and, 149–50, 152, 154–63, 166–73, 179, 188, 190–92, 200, 238
Overland Monthly ownership change and, 173
at Phi Beta Kappa gathering, 210
Poems, 190
“The Poet of Sierra Flat,” 210–11
“Relieving Guard,” 67
schooling of, 50
State Department position of, 247–48, 249, 253
Stoddard and, 48–49, 97, 124, 137, 146, 147, 150, 155–56, 169, 181–83, 189, 191, 212, 214
Stoddard compared with, 37, 38
Twain and, 60, 88–89, 97, 102–3, 104, 114, 117, 120–21, 124, 127, 128, 130–33, 139, 140, 142, 148, 151, 153–55, 167, 173–74, 179–81, 189, 193, 197, 203, 204, 206–9, 212, 216–17, 220–22, 238, 240–44, 246–48
Twain’s Quaker City letters edited by, 153–54, 155, 174, 179
Two Men of Sandy Bar, 240–41
Ward and, 73
Webb and, 51
Wiyot massacre and, 24–26, 60, 147
Harte, Francis King, 96
Harte, Griswold, 21
Harte, Jessamy, 221
Hartford, Conn., 204–5, 208, 236
Hartford Courant, 204
Hawaii:
Hornet sinking and, 125–26
Stoddard in, 4, 85, 91–93, 124, 143, 169–70, 182, 214
Twain in, 124–27
Hawley, Joseph, 203
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 201
Hayes, Rutherford B., 246–47
Hearst, William Randolph, 252
“Heathen Chinee, The” (“Plain Language from Truthful James”) (Harte), 187–90, 187, 193, 202, 204, 219, 241, 246
Hogarth, William, 22, 24
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 201
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 58, 200
Stoddard and, 123, 124
Hopkins, Mark, 186
Hornet, USS, 125–26
Hotten, John Camden, 223
Howe, Julia Ward, 212
Howells, Elinor, 97, 199, 200, 246–47
Howells, William Dean, 21, 54, 62, 97, 133, 168, 176, 178, 183, 200–202, 208–9, 218
Harte and, 198–200, 202–3, 209–12, 218–20, 239, 246–47
Stoddard and, 214–16
Twain and, 217–20, 233, 236, 239–41, 244, 246–47, 256
Hull, Joseph, 187
Humboldt Bay, 24
Indians massacred at, 24–26, 60, 147
Huntington, Collis P., 186
Indian Island massacre, 24–26, 60, 147
Indian Wars, 25
Industrial Revolution, 13
Innocents Abroad, The (Twain), 125, 174–75, 176–79, 184, 197, 201, 203, 204, 206–9, 217, 222, 228
Harte and, 153–54, 155, 174, 179
Quaker City letters as basis for, 151–55
James, Henry, 200, 201
James, William, 201
Jefferson, Thomas, 2, 57, 110
“Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (Twain), 101–2, 103–4, 105, 110–11, 113–15, 117, 121, 126, 130, 138, 139, 167, 178, 218, 239
Keeler, Ralph, 208
King, Thomas Starr, 19–20, 30–31, 36, 41, 43, 52, 55, 57–59, 69, 93–94, 96, 99, 116
death of, 66–68, 99
Harte and, 19–20, 31, 36, 59, 67, 83, 99
Stoddard and, 37, 40, 47, 48, 67
Laird, James, 71, 72
Lakeside Monthly, 198
Langdon, Charley, 175
Last Supper, The (Leonardo), 178
Lawrence, Joe, 26, 27, 46, 47, 51, 63
Leatherstocking Tales (Cooper), 96
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 38, 54
Lee, Robert E., 18, 93
Leonardo da Vinci, 178
Lick House, 10, 41, 46, 60
Lincoln, Abraham, 1, 17, 19, 30, 36, 57, 69, 72, 94, 95, 136, 140–41
assassination of, 94–95
literacy, 13, 136
London, Jack, 38, 253
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 31, 58, 200
Stoddard and, 123
Los Angeles, Calif., 34
Los Angeles Star, 34
Low, Mrs. Frederick, 128
Lowell, James Russell, 31, 58, 130, 200, 210
“Luck of Roaring Camp, The” (Harte), 156–58, 160–62, 166–67, 170, 179, 199, 219, 237
Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches, The (Harte), 179, 180, 188, 190
Ludlow, Fitz Hugh, 55
Maguire’s Opera House, 52–53, 74–75, 86, 127, 131
Marysville Appeal, 152
Marysville Express, 81, 84
Mazeppa, 52, 72
Melville, Herman, 123
Menken, Adah Isaacs, 51–54, 72, 98, 183
Mexican-American War, 30
Mexicans, 34
Mill, John Stuart, 123–24
Miller, Joaquin, 213
miners, 101–2, 103, 108
miscegenation, 69
Twain’s hoax and, 69–70, 72, 85–86, 104, 132
Missouri, 14
Montgomery Street, San Francisco, 76
Mormonism, 32–33
Morning Call, see San Francisco Morning Call
“Mother’s Grief, The” (Coolbrith), 35, 98
Napoleon I, Emperor, 177
Nation, 122, 143, 145, 158
Nevada, 57
Carson City, see Carson City, Nev.
Comstock Lode in, 15, 16, 17, 42
Twain in, 10, 11, 14–16, 17, 68–72, 74
Virginia City, see Virginia City, Nev.
New England, 55, 57, 58, 59, 95, 110, 116, 123, 199, 208, 218, 224, 255
News Letter, 187, 188, 190