Volume 6 | Dispatches from the Wild West: Brigham Young to Mark Twain

Heart was preceded by Ludlow’s newspaper reports from an American West on the cusp of its full settlement and exploitation. He covered life on The Overland Stagecoach amidst buffalo hunts and Civil War refugees. Ludlow also explored the gold mines of Colorado, still in full production. He brought back the first fascinating views of bigamy in the new Mormon Zion of Utah. And at the west coast end of the journey, Ludlow stumbled upon and encouraged the coming master of American literature, Mark Twain, and published alongside Twain and other worthies in San Francisco’s first literary weekly, The Golden Era.