Shortly after midnight, with the temperature at forty-two degrees below zero, they boarded a train for La Crosse, Wisconsin, where they arrived at 9:00 a.m.  [Page 443 The Life of Mark Twain - The Middle Years 1871-1891]

January 22 Thursday – Sam and Cable gave a reading in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.

Sam wrote from St. Paul, Minn. to Charles Erskine Scott Wood, his old West Point friend, who evidently had asked Sam why he never poked fun at Jews.