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MARK TWAIN DAYS FESTIVAL RETURNS
October 13-17, 2026
A Carson City and Virginia City festival celebrating the life of Mark Twain in Northern Nevada.
“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” (Mark Twain)
It was here in Carson City that Samuel Langhorne Clemens started signing his work under the pen name Mark Twain. Twain commenced his writing career with the Territorial Enterprise, writing letters to the editor. The first letter that he signed using his new pen name was a humorous description of a party that he attended at the home of the former California Governor J. Neely, a story that was published on January 31, 1863 – signed “yours dreamily, Mark Twain”.
