samuel clemens wasn't, but mark train wasn't. mark twain was.ayne clemens -- excuse me, was chosen as territorial secretary of nevada, and he told his younger brother, samuel -- i'm sorry, mr. president -- he told his younger brother come west, and i'll find you a job. he'd been fighting, which he didn't like, in the civil war. so he came west with his brother. but his brother couldn't find him a job. so he bummed around for quite a while, and without belaboring the story too long, the fact is, mr. president, that mark twain finally went up to virginia city which was booming at the time, went to the territorial enterprise newspaper and got a job as a reporter. and he was stunningly good and important. that was his first writing that he had done. and that's where he started his fame. he would have stayed in nevada longer, but someone challenged him to a duel for some of the things he wrote. being the smart man he is, he didn't want the duel. he left town, went to california where he wrote two books, his experiences bumming around nevada until he