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Living Curios and river legends in a late 19th cent urban collage
A sprawling clilp of sensational dime museum chatter, river pilot reminiscences, and social curios. It mixes talk of freak exhibitions from fat women to sword eaters, notes on sugar trade and pig iron, plus a long anecdote about the writer and Mark Twain mentor Horace Bixby and Clemens’ river days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Triak
Oshikowh
New Jer‘wey
Buffalo
Boston
Jasy Boys
Gianta
Brooklyn Bridge
India
Ardant
Ios
Enoch
Santana
Seacre
Bixby
Abesinea
New Orleans
Ohio River
Cincinnati
Clemens
Paul Jones
Debra
Island No. 35
Miosinippi River
Wwe
Hanniel
Hin
South America
Twenew
Alsck Scott
Alan
sAeret
Haven
Ells
Confederacy
Jbe
Sterling Price
St Louis
Orrin Clanens
Territory of
Nevada
Samacein
Clemens Capt. Bisby
Chicago Tribune