Brackenridge High School - La Retama Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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The Quaker City” on which Mark Twain sailed for his first visit to Europe. FOREWORD Our reason for making this a Mark Twain Edition is two fold: first, to honor America's beloved humorist at this the hundredth anniversary of his birth; second, to give to the students of Erackenridge both now, and in later years, that same happy experience which Mark Twain hoped for the readers of Tom Sawyer , namely: to try to pleasantly remind adults of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in. At seventeen, as a printer, Mark Twain started out to see the k io travels continued to the last year of his life and embraced the globe.

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 — — ■'■ '• v • •■•■ ■ ■.. The overland stage from St. Joseph to Carson City. Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the birth of America's beloved humorist .... Mark Twain ... Published by ... The Students of Brackenridge High School San Antonio, Texas La Retama for 1935 KfVv When the Civil War ended Mark Twain's career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, he went west where he became a miner, reporter. and lecturer.

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One of the early trains of the period when Mark Twain began lecturing. CONTENTS Administration and Faculty Classes Senior Junior Sophomore School Life Favorites Features Activities Stage, Press and Music R. O. T. C. Clubs Athletics The most remunerative of Mark Twain's several occupations was lecturing on his travels and his books He filled the house to capacity and held his audience spellbound.