Roughing It by Mark Twain
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• Welcome and Introduction – 0:00:00
• Leaders Make Comic Capital – 0:02:00
• I’m Packing Up My Game and Imma’ Head Out West – 0:05:00
• The Literary Life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens aka Mark Twain – 0:07:00
• As the Sound of a Fading Wave Rolling out to the Distant Sea – 0:10:00
• A Bull Can’t Climb a Tree and Other Tall Tales – 0:20:00
• Humor in the Face of the End of an Era – 0:25:00
• The Hunger of the Cayote – 0:30:00
• Where is the Frontier When Everything Has Already Been Explored? – 0:35:00
• Staying on the Leadership Path with Mark Twain – 0:40:00

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Music:  Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 – I. Of Foreign Lands And Peoples, by Robert Schumman, recorded live by Donald Betts.

Donald Betts is pleased to share this music under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License. For details see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

Closing and Opening theme composed by Brian Sanyshyn of Brian Sanyshyn Music.

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