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Nevada Yesterdays: Mark Twain Part I
AIR DATE: May 7, 2010
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On April 21, 1910, a man with bushy white hair and a thick moustache died. We remember the centennial of the death of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who moved to Nevada and became Mark Twain.
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NPR: 'Man In White' Reveals Twain's Haunted Final Years
NPR: The Icon Answers: 'Who Is Mark Twain?'
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PBS: Samuel Clemens
SFist: nugget o' history: Mark Twain torched Lake Tahoe?
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