Episode 3
Samuel Clemens, a 29-year-old Nevada newspaper reporter, alias Mark Twain, recalls duelling in 1864. Read by Kerry Shale.
Read by Kerry Shale. In Nevada in 1864 there was a sudden fashion for duelling. At the time Samuel L. Clemens, better known now as Mark Twain, was City Editor on the Virginia City Enterprise. He was just 29 years-old and though ambitious, he claims he had no desire to fight a duel, even for the honour of his paper. But somehow, in spite of his intentions, he managed to provoke the proprietor of the rival Virginia Union.
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