Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 185.
62
«A gentleman informed us yesterday that he thought the intention was to remove the partition, but he could not be positive about it». Ibid.
63
«We learn from gentlemen who were present at the trial to-day, that there were about thirty witnesses on the stand, and one of them a woman». Local Column. Territorial Enterprise (January 11–21, 1863). The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 401.
64
«…The art of writing half-truthful articles to entertain his audience of miners and roughnecks». Underwood D. Journalism and the Novel. Truth and fiction, 1700–2000. New York: Cambridge University press, 2008. P. 85.
65
«I found one wagon that was going on to California, and made some judicious inquiries of the proprietor. When I learned…that he… would not be in the city the next day to make trouble, I got ahead of the other papers, for I took down his list of names and added his party to the killed and wounded. Having more scope here, I put this wagon through an Indian fight that to this day has no parallel in history». Ward G. Duncan D. Burns K. Mark Twain. An illustrated biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. P. 38.
66
«On the Enterprise he disliked writing reports which demanded exact facts and figures; he hated “solid facts”». Bellamy G. Mark Twain as a Literary Artist.Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950. P.90.
67
«In the bottom of the incline the ledge is about ten feet wide, has a casing of blue clay, and is well defined; a great quantity of quartz has been taken from it, which looks exactly like third or fourth-class Ophir, but it won't pay to crush yet awhile, although choice specimens of it have assayed as high as ninety-two dollars to the ton». Local Column. Territorial Enterprise (April 3, 1863) / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 412.
68
«At the present writing we cannot say what the net proceeds of the ball will amount to, but they will doubtless reach quite a respectable figure – say $400». Twain M. Sanitary Ball / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 185.
69
«We do not care about dictating much in the matter so long as no one will be likely to pay us for it». The new Court House (Local Column Territorial Enterprise, January 10, 1863) / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 189.
70
«We have been suffering from the seven years' itch for many months. It is probably the most aggravating disease in the world. It is contagious. That man has commenced a career of suffering which is frightful to contemplate; there is no cure for the distemper». Local Column. Territorial Enterprise (January 8, 1863) / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 182.
71
«Sam offered the fictitious reporter’s “notes” <…> A week later, after his hat was filched at an Odd Fellows ball in Gold Hill, he announced menacingly in the column that he suffered from the seven years’ itch». Powers R. Mark Twain. A life. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Free press, 2005. P. 113.
72
«Mr. Wm. L. Card, of Silver City, has invented a sort of infernal machine, which is to turn quartz mills by electricity. It consists of wheels and things, and – however, we could not describe it without getting tangled. Mr. Card assures us that he can apply his invention to all the mills in Silver City». Local Column. Territorial Enterprise (April 19 – 30, 1863) / Ibid. P. 413.
73
«Sulphur Deposit», «Silver bars – how assayed».
74
Virginia City Territorial Enterprise 1862–1868. Digital archive: [сайт].URL: (дата обращения 07.04.2016).
75
«A journalistic counterculture coalesced at the Enterprise and improvised a news literature-on-deadline that caught the emerging voice of a self-defined America». Powers R. Mark Twain. A life. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Free press, 2005. P. 113.
76
«Небылица – это, по сути, форма устного развлечения; аудитория ценит не столько буквальное значение баек, сколько художественные средства выразительности» (The tall tale is essentially an oral form of entertainment; the audience appreciates the imaginative invention rather than the literal meaning of the tales). Tall tale (Folk Tale) / Encyclopedia Britannica: [сайт]. URL: http://global.britannica.com/art/tall-tale
77
«After dark, he ventured forth with his nose swollen to the size of several junk bottles – a vast, inflammed and pulpy old snoot – to get advice about having it amputated». DeQuille D. Mark Twain takes a lesson in the manly art // The Washoe Giant in San Francisco / Ed. by F. Walker. San Francisco: George Fields, 1938. P. 52–53.
78
«American newspapers <…> contained low art and folksy humor, haphazard news items, and florid, sentiment-laden writing<…>». Underwood D. Journalism and the Novel. Truth and fiction, 1700–2000. New York: Cambridge University press, 2008. P. 85.
79
Ibid. P. 87.
80
«He hated to have to do with figures, measurements and solid facts, such as were called for in matters pertaining to mines and machinery». Nelson J. Mark Twain // A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre / Ed. T. B. Connery. New York: Greenwood press, 1992.P. 44.
81
«Joe Goodman has assigned him to report stock quotations, earnings from some of the five hundred mines on the mountain, and public meetings in the town – the kind of rote work that
