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72 maize was well known in regions Hall, “Food Crops, Medicinal Plants, and the Atlantic Slave Trade,” 27.
72 increasingly offered poor cuts Yentsch, A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves, 234.
72 Guinea hens, the African fowl Edna Lewis, The Taste of Country Cooking (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), 159.
72 the Kongo word nguba Hall, “Food Crops, Medicinal Plants, and the Atlantic Slave Trade,” 32.
73 “Sometimes I’ve set right down and eat with him” Twain, Tom Sawyer, 200.
73 “barrel of odds and ends” Twain, Huckleberry Finn, 2.
73 colonoware pots made by some slaves Ferguson, Uncommon Ground, 18-32.
74 “I hadn’t had a bite to eat since yesterday” Twain, Huckleberry Finn, 154-55.
74 now a cotton plantation Twain, Autobiography, 5.
75 “scalded like a pig” De Voe, The Market Assistant, 129.
75 “Ef dey’s anyt’ing dat riles me” Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Possum,” first appeared in Howdy Honey Howdy (New York: Dodd & Mead, 1905); quoted in O’Neill, American Food Writing, 132-33.
79 “hardly to be discerned” Edward Winslow, Mourt’s Relation: A Journey of the Pilgrims at Plymouth (1622; Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1963), 43.
79 “Bear I abominate” Marryat, A Diary in America, 37.
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83 “balloon voyages” Twain, Roughing It, 153.
84 “[We] toiled laboriously up a mountain” Ibid., 147-48.
84 “too much dish-rag” Ibid., 24.
85 “winging about in the emptiness” Ibid., 154.
85 “As the great darkness closed down” Ibid., 148.
85 a slave murdered on a whim Powers, Mark Twain, 37-38.
85 He’d spied on his own father’s autopsy Ibid., 43.
85 given matches to a drunken tramp Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 548.
86 he told the story in letters Powers, Mark Twain, 89.
86 “incapacitated by fatigue” Twain, Autobiography, 134.
86 accidentally gunning down a civilian Mark Twain, “The Private History of a Campaign That Failed,” in Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, 1852-1890 (story first published 1885; New York: Library of America, 1992), 879.
86 “it never rains here, and the dew never falls” SLC to Jane Lampton Clemens, Oct. 26, 1861, Carson City, NV, Mark Twain’s Letters, 1853-1866, Edgar Marguess Branch, Michael B. Frank, Kenneth M. Sanderson, Harriet Elinor Smith, Lin Salamo, and Richard Bucci, eds. Mark Twain Project Online, www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00031.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp, accessed Mar. 18, 2009.
87 “I wish I was back there piloting” SLC to Jane Clampton Clemens, Jan. 20, 1866, San Francisco, Mark Twain’s Letters, 1853-1866, Mark Twain Project Online, www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00094.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp, accessed Nov. 9, 2009.
87 eighteen great boats R. Kent Rasmussen, Mark Twain A-Z (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 440.
87 Fried Trout Corson, Practical American Cookery, 217.
88 prospectors spread rainbow trout Details on transfers from Ralph Cutter, Sierra Trout Guide (Portland, OR: Frank Amato Publications, 1991), 21-25.
88 from the crest of the Rockies John Merwin, The New American Trout Fishing (New York: Macmillan, 1994), 75.
88 Europe’s eleven historically recognized species Cutter, Sierra Trout Guide, 23.
89 a writer for American Angler Merwin, New American Trout Fishing, 76.
89 “They fried the fish with the bacon” Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 100.
89 “one of the largest brook trout” De Voe, The Market Assistant, 237.
89 “roaring demon” Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 33.
89 the nation’s first fishing Susan Williams, Food in the United States, 1820s-1890 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006), 133.
90 “supposed the gas-works” De Voe, The Market Assistant, 241.
90 Light bends when it enters water Thomas C. Grubb, The Mind of the Trout: A Cognitive Biology for Biologists and Anglers (Madison: Univerisity of Wisconsin Press, 2003), 10.
90 the eyes of trout continue to grow Ibid., 15.
90 beer, cheese, and mustard Powers, Mark Twain, 114.
90 ten thousand tents George Williams III, Mark Twain: His Life in Virginia City, Nevada (Carson City,