Who is Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass? Traditional Cache
Who is Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass?
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Samuel Clemens used many different pen names before deciding on Mark Twain. His first used pen name was Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass in a series of humorous letters.
He maintained that his primary pen name came from his years working on Mississippi riverboats, where two fathoms, a depth indicating safe water for passage of boat, was measured on the sounding line. A fathom is a maritime unit of depth, equivalent to two yards (1.8 m); twain is an archaic term for "two". The riverboatman's cry was mark twain or, more fully, by the mark twain, meaning "according to the mark [on the line], [the depth is] two [fathoms]", that is, "The water is 12 feet (3.7 m) deep and it is safe to pass".
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