On Sunday May 29, 1864, Mark Twain, having quit the Enterprise, boarded the stagecoach with his friend Steve Gillis and began his journey out of the Nevada Territory to San Francisco; no duel was fought.

At a young 26 years old, Mark Twain didn’t know it yet, but his life would drastically take a turn for the better the minute he left Missouri and hit the road for Nevada.

2024年4月12日 · American author Mark Twain once lived in Nevada. It was at a Virginia City, Nevada newspaper that he first coined his famous pen name.

From 1861 to 1864, writer Mark Twain (real name: Samuel Clemens) lived in Carson City Nevada at his brother, Orion Clemens house.

2005年7月16日 · In the middle of a driving snowstorm in the winter of 1861, a ragtag bunch of prospectors arrived in Unionville, Nevada. They built a rough shelter into the side of the Humboldt Mountain and topped it with a canvas roof leaving an opening to allow for the escape of the smoking sagebrush they burned for warmth, when they could get it.

2018年8月10日 · After failing to find riches in the rough 1860s mining camps of Nevada Territory, Samuel Langhorne Clemens finally found redemption in a Virginia City saloon as a raucous newspaper writer who adopted the pen name Mark Twain.

Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain. All Nevada is a stage, and cowpokes, artists, activists, and visionaries are the players in a drama centuries in the making. Whether born or raised, these special characters aren’t just Nevadans: they’re Legendary Nevadans.

In Part 1 of Mark Twain's Nevada, McAvoy Layne recounts a first-person account of Mark Twain's visit to Lake Tahoe.

NEVADA . Seal for Territory of Nevada designed by Orion Clemens, Mark Twain's brother... the Great Seal of the State. It had snow-capped mountains in it; and tunnels, and shafts, and pickaxes, and quartz-mills, and pack-trains, and mule …

Join us October 16-18, 2025, to celebrate one of America's most prolific, witty, wise (and wise cracking) writers, Mark Twain. Learn more about his work, life, and contributions to the fabric of the wild west.