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Clemens and Higbie, “millionaires for ten days,” as the dedication to Roughing It jokes, go their separate ways, sadder and presumably wiser for their loss.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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In Roughing It, which he dedicated to Higbie, Mark Twain conflated the search for the lost cement mine with the equally unsuccessful denouement of the Annipolitan mining venture.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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According to Twain, Higbie sees a specimen of rock purportedly from the Wide West holding and somehow deduces that it had not come from the mine.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Clemens and Higbie were out sailing one afternoon when they ran into trouble.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Clemens conceded to his brother that he did not “own a foot in the ‘Johnson’ ledge,” and the arcane law by which he alleged that he and Higbie were cheated out of their holdings applied only to surface claims—not subterranean finds.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Lowering himself by rope into the mine shaft, Higbie discovers a blind lead of rich ore cutting diagonally across the Wide West and intersecting their own holdings in the Annipolitan.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Clemens and Higbie, “millionaires for ten days,” as the dedication to Roughing It jokes, go their separate ways, sadder and presumably wiser for their loss.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Clemens and Higbie were out sailing one afternoon when they ran into trouble.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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In Roughing It, which he dedicated to Higbie, Mark Twain conflated the search for the lost cement mine with the equally unsuccessful denouement of the Annipolitan mining venture.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Clemens located a new partner, an experienced and indefatigable civil engineer named Calvin Higbie, “a large, strong man who has the perseverance of the devil.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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