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90 “‘papered’ inside with flour-sacks” SLC to Pamela A. Moffett and Jane Lampton Clemens, Oct. 25, 1861, Carson City, NV, Mark Twain’s Letters, 1853-1866, Mark Twain Project Online, www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00030.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp, accessed Jan. 12, 2010.
91 “their own bacon and beans” Twain, Roughing It, 392.
91 butter could take nearly a year Williams, Food in the United States, 141.
91 “for breakfast, hot biscuit, fried bacon” Annie Tallent, “Bill of Fare on the Plains,” in O’Neill, American Food Writing, 119.
91 booms in the canning industry Vileisis, Kitchen Literacy, 75.
91 lack of air that sterilized Ibid., 78.
91 Twain did get used to trail food Twain, Roughing It, 182.
92 “water in a high place” Robert Stewart, “Sam Clemens and the Wildland Fire at Lake Tahoe,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 51, no. 2 (Summer 2008), 103.
92 “If there is any life that is happier” Twain, Roughing It, 152.
93 “When we come to speak of beauty” Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (1869; New York: Penguin, 2002), 380.
94 “is agreeably struck” Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste; or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, M.F.K. Fisher, trans. (1825; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1949), 40.
94 “prim, hideous, straight-up-and-down” Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 169-70.
95 Cream Trout Eliza Leslie, The Lady’s Receipt-Book (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1847), 23.
96 “not prepared in the ineffectual goblet” Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 293.
96 “iced water” Twain, Autobiography, 6.
96 “merely give you a tumbler” Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 154.
96 “pure and limpid ice-water” Ibid., 270.
96 “How do they know?” Ibid., 154.
96 “I think that there is but a single specialty” Mark Twain, “What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us,” in Collected Tales, 1891-1910, 172.
97 By 1842 railroads Williams, Food in the United States, 86-87.
97 fresh milk to cities from the countryside Vileisis, Kitchen Literacy, 38.
97 large-scale brewing of beer Williams, Food in the United States, 87.
97 after Gustavus Swift built a line of icehouses Vileisis, Kitchen Literacy, 68.
97 “Sierra ice” Joanne Meschery, Truckee: An Illustrated History of the Town and Its Surroundings (Truckee, CA: Rocking Stone Press, 1978), 48.
98 How to Mix Absinthe Lafcadio Hearn, Lafcadio Hearn’s Creole Cook Book (1885; Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 1990), 249.
98 pathogens from newly introduced Cutter, Sierra Trout Guide, 15.
98 UC Davis Tahoe Research “Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Stand Little Chance in Lake Tahoe,” UC Davis Tahoe Research Group, July 18, 2003, www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/5595, accessed Nov. 20, 2008.
98 “purest, . . . most unadulterated” SLC to Pamela A. Moffett and Jane Lampton Clemens, Oct. 25, 1861, Carson City, NV, Mark Twain’s Letters, 1853-1866, Mark Twain Project Online, www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00030.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp, accessed Jan. 12, 2010.
98 tomoo agai Patrick Trotter, Cutthroat: Native Trout of the West (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 159.
99 only to spawn Ibid., 162.
100 “so villainously rapid and crooked” Oct. 25, 1861, Mark Twain’s Letters, 1853-1866, Mark Twain Project Online, www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00031.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp, accessed Mar. 18, 2009.
101 originated along the Pacific coast Cutter, Sierra Trout Guide, 13.
101 Sixty-thousand-year-old fossils Robert J. Behnke, Trout and Salmon of North America (New York: Free Press, 2002), 211.
101 feed on the tui-chub Trotter, Cutthroat, 163.
102 magnolia and polecat Oct. 25, 1861, Mark Twain’s Letters, 1853-1866, Mark Twain Project Online, www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00031.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp, accessed Mar. 18, 2009.
102 “the meanest compound” Twain, Roughing It, 182.
102 “superior, in fact, to that of any other fish” Trotter, Cutthroat, 148.
102 particularly rich Cutter, Sierra Trout Guide, 15.
103 a genetic memory Ibid., 13.
103 two hundred thousand