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104 Fulton Fish Market Merwin, New American Trout Fishing, 9.
104 quarter million acre-feet of water a year Trotter, Cutthroat, 154.
104 “fish have no rights in water law” Quoted in Behnke, Trout and Salmon, 215.
104 “Pyramid Lake exists” Ibid.
105 seventy thousand pounds of fish were caught Trotter, Cutthroat, 169-70.
105 collected in Summit Lake Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Fisheries Department, Natural Resources Report of Pyramid Lake Fisheries, (1, no. 2) Spring 2008, 2.
105 Paiute John Skimmerhorn Trotter, Cutthroat, 149.
106 below subspecies level Behnke, Trout and Salmon, 4.
106 in 2004 over thirteen thousand fish Craig Springer, “The Return of a Lake-Dwelling Giant,” Endangered Species Bulletin 32, no. 1 (February 2007), 10-11.
106 “twenty years down the road” Ibid.
108 market fisherman Seth Green Merwin, New American Trout Fishing, 8.
108 Trout Pie Susannah Carter, The Frugal Housewife (New York: G. & R. Waite, 1803), 141.
109 “galloping all over the premises” Twain, Roughing It, 155-56.
109 “the mountains seem to be” Quoted in Stewart, “Sam Clemens,” 111.
109 during spring’s first thaws Harold Biswell, Prescribed Burning in California Wildlands Management (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), 48.
109 “the Indians always kept” Ibid.
109 seventeen hundred strikes per year Ibid., 45.
109 “within half an hour” Twain, Roughing It, 156.
110 “lava men” Sept. 18, 1861, Mark Twain’s Letters, 1853-1866, Mark Twain Project Online, www.marktwainprojectorg/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00029.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp, accessed Jan. 12, 2010.
110 near Stateline Point, on Tahoe’s northern edge David C. Antonucci, “Mark Twain’s Route to Lake Tahoe,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 51, no. 2 (Summer 2008), 116-26.
110 favored by ponderosa pines Biswell, Prescribed Burning in California Wildlands Management, 33.
109 “deeply carpeted” Twain, Roughing It, 154.
111 “standard-bearers” SLC to Jane Lampton Clemens, Sept. 18-21, 1861, Carson City, NV, Mark Twain’s Letters, 1853-1866, Mark Twain Project Online, www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00029.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp, accessed Dec. 3, 2009.
111 dead and extremely dry growth Stewart, “Sam Clemens,” 108.
111 “dense growth of manzanita” Twain, Roughing It, 156.
111 “he was paying me ten dollars” Ibid., 237.
111 a long, familiar Ibid., 81.
4. HEAVEN ON THE HALF SHELL: OYSTERS AND MUSSELS IN SAN FRANCISCO
114 thriving business in seabird eggs Susan Casey, The Devil’s Teeth (New York: Owl Books, 2005), 79-85.
114 “When I was a boy” Joseph Mitchell, “Old Mr. Flood,” in Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories (story first published 1944; New York: Vintage Books, 1993), 377.
115 Oyster Omelet Wilcox, Buckeye Cookery, 262.
116 “I began to get tired” Twain, Roughing It, 376.
116 “Sir, you are a stranger to me” Ibid., 276.
117 Laird refused to pay Powers, Mark Twain, 139-41.
117 “the most cordial and sociable” Twain, Roughing It, 396.
117 an early San Franciscan bohemia Doris Muscatine, Old San Francisco: The Biography of a City from Early Days to the Earthquake (New York: Putnam’s, 1975), 171.
118 “a huge double bed” Dan De Quille, Golden Era, Dec. 6, 1863.
118 “Mark and I agreed well as room-mates” De Quille, Golden Era, Dec. 6, 1863.
118 dozens of restaurants Muscatine, Old San Francisco, 129-34.
118 197,639,000 pounds Elinore M. Barrett, “The California Oyster Industry,” in Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, Fish Bulletin 123, Mar. 1, 1963, p. 6, http://repositories.cdlib.org/sio/lib/fb.123, accessed June 3, 2009.
119 “To a Christian who has toiled months and months in Washoe” Twain, “In the Metropolis,” in The Washoe Giant in San Francisco (originally in Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, June 17, 1864), 74.
119 the Occidental served quails at 6:00 A.M. Mark Twain, Clemens of the Call: Mark Twain in San Francisco (first appeared in Morning Call, Sept. 16, 1864), Edgar Marquess Branch, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969), 64.
120 slow the metabolism Barrett, “The California