Stories by samclemens

Lawrence Wright on Larry McMurtry

A Harvard library mystery: Was a Titanic victim’s rare book a fake?

Dog who served on both sides of the American Revolution

How iceberg won the lettuce wars

The headline-grabbing debate over which explorer reached the North Pole soonest

A Man Who Transformed American Theater

A Repugnance to Autobiography

When the Government Tried to Flood the Grand Canyon

The Master Fabulist of American Fiction

Central Park’s Doomed Victorian Dinosaur Museum

California Job Case

Impressions of American Hotels 1883-1898 (2022)

How the Kentucky Cave Wars Reshaped the State’s Tourism Industry

Dennis Hopper’s Quiet Vision of Nineteen-Sixties Hollywood

From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling Ghostwriter

A surprising dearth of spectacled bears

How Thomas Lanier Williams Became Tennessee

At the Met, She Holds Court. At Home, She Held 71 Looted Antiquities

She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter

How Milwaukee Is Celebrating the Typewriter’s Long, Local History

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