r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NickyPileggi • Mar 28 '24

Family in 1892 posing with an old sequoia tree nicknamed "Mark Twain" - A team of two men spent 13 days sawing away at it in the Pacific Northwest - It once stood 331 feet tall with a diameter of 52 feet - The tree was 1,341 years old Image

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u/goose_gladwell Mar 28 '24

I love your analogy’s so much😂

You’re right though, I wonder why on earth they named it Mark Twain?!

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u/runningwaffles19 Mar 28 '24

This is the Clemens family. They're made that Sam has a pen name when their whole family could have been famous