January 22 Sunday – The San Francisco Examiner published “Daggett’s Recollections,” a description of Mark Twain’s appearance on his first arrival in Virginia City (before Sam used the pen name). [Tenney 21; Fatout, MT in Va City p.7-8]. In the same paper, Arthur McEwen wrote “In the Heroic Days, which described the imaginative reporting of Mark Twain and Dan De Quille, “who often did the better work.” The article quotes Mark Twain’s complaint that “to write a burlesque so wild that its pretended facts will not be accepted in perfect good faith by somebody, is very nearly an impossible thing to do” [Tenney 21; Fatout, MT in Va City p.17-8].