Episode 168: The Traveling Stones

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Music


Ruby by Ali Farka Toure
Party’s End, from Bernard Herrmann’s score to The Egyptian
Future Green by Masuhiro Sugaya
The Boy and the Snake Dance by Charles Cohen
Vier Stucke for Xylophone as performed by Guniid Keetman
Opening from Marcelo Zarvos’ score to Please Give
Herbert’s Story from Mark Orton’s score to Nebraska
Solitary Living by The Flashbulb


Notes


You should read Dan De Quille. He’s a good writer! I like his book on the Comstock Load, Big Bonanza.
Also check out The Tall Tales of Dan De Quille, by C. Grant Loomis from 1946.
I found this article about Twain’s time in Nevada particularly helpful.