May 6–29 Friday – At some time during this period, Sam wrote from Elmira to Jerome B. Stillson, editor of the New York World, enclosing a column from the Hartford Courant. The Courant article noted the revival of the “famous Fisher claims,” whereby a family had continually bilked the U.S. government with claims of farm damage during the 1813-14 war against the Creek Indians.  Sam called the Fishers “insatiable blood-suckers,” who had tried to bribe him. Sam wrote the full story of the Fishers for the 1870 Galaxy magazine. He wrote the story again [MTL 6: 131].