Stories by samclemens

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

The Tyranny of the Tale

The Mysterious Airships of 1896-97 (2014)

Old Weird America: The Dark Comedies of Charles Portis

Burying Indiana Jones

Underage Enlistment in the United States and the Confederacy

‘The Whiskey Rebellion’ Review: A Young Nation, Suddenly Tested

Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Did This Writer Know Tennessee Williams?

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