After the discussion, have students compose a culminating writing, using one of the quotes below as a starting point: He (Mark Twain) was curiously and intimately American. No other author had ...

Twain expressed the hope in writing that the country’s new president, Rutherford B. Hayes, would put this author, Richard Irving Dodge, at the helm of the Indian Department. "There’s a man who ...

the *Mark Twain Papers* in Berkeley and *Works of Mark Twain* (begun at Iowa City). Under his leadership, more than 20 volumes have since appeared, with many more still in the pipeline. The most ...