October 8, 1889 Tuesday

scott 8 January 2024

October 8 Tuesday – Pamela Moffett left the Clemens home after a week visit [Oct. 7 to Langdon]. She sent a postcard from New York that she had arrived there [mentioned in Oct. 9 to Moffett].

Richard R. Bowker for Am. Copyright League sent Sam an invitation to read at the authors’ benefit for copyright at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Dec. 16 [MTNJ 3: 523n133].

CARSON VALLEY—THE SIERRA NEVADA. 1859

scott 29 December 2023

XXXVI. CARSON VALLEY—THE SIERRA NEVADA.

PLACERVILLE, Cal., Aug. 1, 1859.

Though the Carson sinks in or is absorbed by the same desert with the Humboldt, a glance at its worst estate suffices to convince the traveler, that the former waters by far the more hopeful region. Large cottonwoods dot its banks very near its sink ; and its valley, wherever moist, is easily rendered productive. You feel that you are once more in a land where the arm of industry need not be paralyzed by sterility, obstruction, and despair.

AN JOURNEY, OVERLAND FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO, IN THE SUMMER OF 1859 .

scott 28 December 2023
Horace Greeley describes his journey from Atchison, Kansas, through Kansas and finally to Denver, Colorado, on the Pikes Express line. From Denver he traveled to Fort Laramie from which his route follows that taken by both Sam Clemens and Richard Burton. He then differs from Clemens' and Burton's route, after Ruby Station, and follows the Humboldt eventually arriving at Carson Sink. Rather than Carson City, his trail ends at Genoa. From there, he traveled over the Sierras to Sacramento.
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