Mark Twain. (2023, November 25). Wikiquote. Retrieved January 7, 2024 from https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Twain&oldid=3407072.
Mark Twain (en.wikiquote.org) Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known as Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.
On the night of October 6, 1998, Shepard was approached by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson at the Fireside Lounge in Laramie; all three men were in their early 20s. McKinney and Henderson offered to give Shepard a ride home. They subsequently drove to a remote rural area and proceeded to rob, pistol-whip, and torture Shepard, tying him to a split rail fence and leaving him to die.