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=== Rani žurnalizam i putopisi ===
[[File:Mark Twain Cabin Exterior MVC-082X.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|CabinKoliba whereu Twainkojoj je Tvejn wrotenapisao "Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", Jackass Hill, [[Tuolumne County, California|Tuolumne County]]. ClickKliknite onna [[:Image:Mark Twain Cabin Marker (Close-up) MVC-068X.jpg|historicalmemorijalnu markerploču]] andi [[:Image:Mark Twain Cabin Interior MVC-073X.jpg|interiorunutrašnji viewpogled]].]]
WhileDok writingje forpisao theza Virginia City newspaper, thenovine ''[[Territorial Enterprise]]'' u ingradu Virginia City tokom 1863. godine, ClemensKlemens metse lawyerupoznao sa advokatom [[Thomas Fitch (politicianpolitičar)|TomTomom FitchFičom]], editor of theeditorom competingkonkurentskih newspapernovina ''Virginia Daily Union'', andkoji knownje asbio thepoznat "silverkao „srebrno-tonguedjezični orator of the Pacific"Pacifika“.<ref name=baskin>{{Cite book | last1 = Baskin | first1 = R. N. (Robert Newton) | last2 = Madsen | first2 = Brigham D. | title = Reminiscences of early Utah : with, Reply to certain statements by O. F. Whitne | year = 2006 | publisher = Signature Books | location = Salt Lake City | isbn = 978-1-56085-193-6 | page = 281 }}</ref>{{rp|51}} HeOn creditedje Fitchsmatrao withFiča givingzaslužnim himpo histome "firstšto reallymu profitableje lesson"dao in„prvu realno profitabilnu lekciju“ o writingpisanju. InGodine 1866, ClemensKlemens presentedje hisdao lecturepredavanje ono theSendvič Sandwichostrvima Islandspublici to a crowd inu Washoe City, Nevada.<ref>{{cite book |title=Twain in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates |work=Writers in Their Own Time |editor= Gary Scharnhorst |page=290 |publisher= University of Iowa Press |edition=first |date=November 28, 2010 |isbn= 978-1-58729-914-8}}</ref> ClemensKlemens je commentedizjavio thatda, "When I first began to lecture, and in my earlier writings, my sole idea was to make comic capital out of everything I saw and heard". Fitch told him, "Clemens, your lecture was magnificent. It was eloquent, moving, sincere. Never in my entire life have I listened to such a magnificent piece of descriptive narration. But you committed one unpardonable sin—the unpardonable sin. It is a sin you must never commit again. You closed a most eloquent description, by which you had keyed your audience up to a pitch of the intensest interest, with a piece of atrocious anti-climax which nullified all the really fine effect you had produced."<ref name=dequille>{{cite web |url=http://www.nevadaobserver.com/Reading%20Room%20Documents/reporting_with_mark_twain_1893.htm |title=Reporting With Mark Twain |first=Dan |last=DeQuille |first2=Mark |last2=Twain |publisher=The Californian Illustrated Magazine |date=July 1893}}</ref> It was in these days that Twain became a writer of the [[Sagebrush School]], and was known later as the most notable within this literary genre.<ref name="unr.edu2009">{{cite web|url=http://knowledgecenter.unr.edu/libraries/support/writers_hof/sagebrushschool.html|title=The Sagebrush School Nevada Writers Hall of Fame 2009|date=October 28, 2009|publisher= University of Nevada, Reno |accessdate=February 26, 2012}}</ref>
Twain's first important work, "[[The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County]]", was first published in the ''[[New York Saturday Press]]'' on November 18, 1865. The only reason it was published there was that his story arrived too late to be included in a book [[Artemus Ward]] was compiling featuring sketches of the [[American Old West|American West]].
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