(Not Really) Roughing it on the Mark Twain Trail
From Hannibal, Missouri, to San Francisco, California
Categories: Renegade Roads
By: Johnny D. Boggs 11/01/2007
Comstock Country
This is Mark Twain Country, because Sam Clemens started using his famous pen name while working for the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City. The circa-1876 building—the newspaper’s third location—now houses the Territorial Enterprise Museum. Two other not-quite-as-famous writers, Alf Doten and Dan DeQuille, also got their start at this paper.
You’ll find driving tours and walking tours and plenty to see in one of the West’s most historic pseudo-ghost towns, with museums honoring everything from hookers (Bullette Red Light Museum) and firefighters (Liberty Engine Company #1 State Fireman Museum) to gamblers (Nevada Gambling Museum) and everything else in the historic Comstock (Way It Was Museum).
Twain spent two years working for the Enterprise, honing his craft and filing stories in his brain for future use, before he moved upward and landed in San Francisco.
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