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  • Steven Terry, captain of the Mark Twain Riverboat, maneuvers his vessel past Glascock's Island and invites passengers to "believe Huck and Tom are out there somewhere."

    Mark Twain's celebrated Missouri hometown is jumping again 2010

  • Glascock's desire was to see Trevelyan alone, and this he did after they had left the boy.

    He Knew He Was Right Anthony Trollope 1848

  • The lands reverted to the proprietors, and Carter apparently managed them for some years for the benefit of Glascock's heirs; he later acquired title to the properties which are mentioned in his will.

    Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733] 1733

  • Carter had noted Glascock's capture in his diary on November 13th: "Collo Barber acquaints me me he had Seizd Glascocks who had fled for Murther his Estate Coll Tarpley in the behalf of Glascocks Heir offers to Enter the Land as Escheat."

    Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733] 1733

  • After realizing there was a pattern to women struggling to find a comfortable fit, Glascock's research led her to the conceptualization and opening of Girlfriends.

    The Times Today's News 2008

  • Real-life places incorporated into the stories include Tom Sawyer's house (the Clemens family home); the homes of childhood friends who inspired the Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher characters; the cave that has come to be known as Mark Twain Cave; Glascock's Island (called Jackson's Island in Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn) and Cardiff Hill.

    Mark Twain's celebrated Missouri hometown is jumping again 2010

  • Carter had noted Glascock's capture in his diary on November 13th: "Collo Barber acquaints me me he had Seizd Glascocks who had fled for Murther his Estate Coll Tarpley in the behalf of Glascocks Heir offers to Enter the Land as Escheat" The lands reverted to the proprietors, and Carter apparently managed them for some years for the benefit of Glascock's heirs; he later acquired title to the properties which are mentioned in his will.

    Robert Carter's will, October 16, 1732 1732

  • Carter had noted Glascock's capture in his diary on November 13th: "Collo Barber acquaints me me he had Seizd Glascocks who had fled for Murther his Estate Coll Tarpley in the behalf of Glascocks Heir offers to Enter the Land as Escheat" The lands reverted to the proprietors, and Carter apparently managed them for some years for the benefit of Glascock's heirs; he later acquired title to the properties which are mentioned in his will.

    Letter from Robert Carter to John Holloway, June 2, 1729 1729

  • Carter had noted Glascock's capture in his diary on November 13th: "Collo Barber acquaints me me he had Seizd Glascocks who had fled for Murther his Estate Coll Tarpley in the behalf of Glascocks Heir offers to Enter the Land as Escheat" The lands reverted to the proprietors, and Carter apparently managed them for some years for the benefit of Glascock's heirs; he later acquired title to the properties which are mentioned in his will.

    Robert Carter Diary, 1725 1725

  • Carter had noted Glascock's capture in his diary on November 13th: "Collo Barber acquaints me me he had Seizd Glascocks who had fled for Murther his Estate Coll Tarpley in the behalf of Glascocks Heir offers to Enter the Land as Escheat" The lands reverted to the proprietors, and Carter apparently managed them for some years for the benefit of Glascock's heirs; he later acquired title to the properties which are mentioned in his will.

    Letter from Robert Carter to [John Holloway], April 7, 1724 1724

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