Early Tales and Sketches, Volume 2 : 1864 -1865 by Mark Twain (1981, Hardcover)

University of California Press

Early Tales and Sketches, Volume 21864 -1865\nAuthor(s): Mark Twain, Edgar Marquess Branch, Robert Hirst, Harriet E. Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of California Press, United States\nImprint: University of California Press\nISBN-13: 9780520043824, 978-0520043824\nSynopsis\nFrom the Introduction: The second volume of this collection follows Clemens from his first days as a resident journalist in California, late in May 1864, through the end of his first full year as a California resident, 1865. In this twenty-month period he wrote most of his work for the San Francisco Golden Era, the Morning Call, the Dramatic Chronicle, and the Californian. He began to publish somewhat more regularly in eastern journals, like the New York Saturday Press and the Weekly Review, and toward the end of the period he started a long assignment as the daily correspondent from San Francisco to the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In November 1865 he published \""Jim Smiley and His Jumpin.