Archives for “Mark Twain”
Sometimes I reach for organization and plan a series of blogs, then something happens to totally knock me off course. Take my bald eagle blog of March 17. I’d fully intended to tell you about a guy with a hole in his head but couldn’t resist sharing that eagle cam. By the way, the babies [...]
Lily Mae backed into the corner of the saloon as the hulking villain lumbered toward her. “Got you,” he snarled. “Now hand over that deed to your father’s gold mine.” “Not on your life!” Summoning her courage, she glared up at him. “I’m going to see you hang for what you did!” [...]
“I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords,” said Mark Twain upon his first sight of the “big water” on a summer day in 1863. Although he lived in Virginia City, Nevada and wrote for the Territorial Enterprise, he’d decided to try harvesting timber from the lake’s luxuriant wooded [...]
