Black Fire (47 page)

“Veteran Firemen. Tom Sawyer runs in race.”
San Francisco Call
, June 17, 1894, vol. 76, no. 17.

“Veteran Firemen, Vocal Solo by Tom Sawyer.”
San Francisco Call
, May 23, 1895, vol. 77, no. 164.

“The Real Tom Sawyer, Living in This City and Doing Business on Mission Street.”
San Francisco Call
, July 14, 1895, vol. 78, no. 44. (Sawyer and his friend Mannix meet Twain coming out of Russ House and spend the night drinking.)

“Billy Mulligan Dies (a review).”
San Francisco Call
, September 30, 1895, vol. 78, no. 122.

“He took morphine, aged bartender asks for Tom Sawyer’s help.”
San Francisco Call
, January 29, 1896, vol. 79, no. 60.

“Jumped into the Sea, Thomas Sawyer is an old acquaintance of Mark Twain, and it was from him the name of ‘Tom Sawyer’ was taken.”
Sacramento Daily Union
, March 15, 1897, vol. 81, no. 105.

“Old Friends Picnic.”
Daily Alta California
, May 31, 1898, vol. 83, no. 183.

Viola Rodgers Interview. “Here is the Original of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer.”
San Francisco Call
, October 23, 1898, vol. 84, no. 145, pp. 25–26 (Long article with drawn illustrations of the literary Tom Sawyer and the original Tom Sawyer. “He prides himself upon being a member of the first volunteer fire company ever formed in California.”)

“Old Time Firemen, Tom Sawyer sings ‘On the Rocky Road to Dublin.’
San Francisco Call
, January 27, 1899.

New York Herald
, “Mark Twain’s Reunion,” June 15, 1902. (Who is the real Tom Sawyer? “Town’s full of ’em,” Twain said. “They are not absolute portraits of any one person. Some of the incidents accredited to Tom Sawyer happened to one and some to another and some not at all.”)

“Mark Twain interview.”
New York American Journal
, March 18, 1906, p. 10. (“There is more than a dozen real Tom Sawyers and Huck Finns have succumbed in the past twenty years.”)

“Tom Sawyer, Whose Name Inspired Twain, Dies at Great Age.”
San Francisco Call
, October 1, 1906, vol. 100, no. 123, p. 1. (Includes photo of Tom Sawyer.)

“Tom Sawyer’s Will Filed.”
San Francisco Call
, October 19, 1906, vol. 100, no. 141.

Twain, Mark. “Chapters from my Autobiography” (
North American Review
, October 1907).

“Henry Clemens.”
Sunday
magazine, March 29, 1908. (With illustration of Twain at his dying brother’s bedside.)

“Illustration of Mark Twain at his dying brother’s bedside.”
Sunday
magazine, March 29, 1908. (Letters and citations from the Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley.)

Perrigan, Dana. “Beneath the City.”
San Francisco Examiner
, March 16, 1998, p. A-1 and p. A-10.

Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley,
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu
. Guardians of the City, the Firemen’s Museum (which now has a Tom Sawyer exhibit):
www.guardiansofthecity.org/sffd/companies/volunteer/
.

The Mark Twain Project at the University of California at Berkeley is a magnificent depository of everything about Twain, including his letters, manuscripts, and biographical notes:
www.marktwainproject.org
.

See also the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco, “Tom Sawyer,”
www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/
, and San Francisco: Ships in Port,
www.maritimeheritage.org/inport.htm
. See San Francisco Fire Department Museum, 655 Presidio Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 9415-2424; the fire engines of 1850–1866 are on display there.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 

ROBERT GRAYSMITH
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of
Zodiac
and
The Sleeping Lady
as well as other books. His books have been made into the major motion pictures
Zodiac
and
Auto Focus
. A
San Francisco Chronicle
political cartoonist and artist for fifteen years, he lives in San Francisco.