Casa de Adobe

If not for Mark Twain’s love of the Mississippi River, which brought him often to St. Louis, an artist who would come to be known for his mission oils and nocturnal adobe scenes may never have made it to California. During the same year California oranges were first shipped east by rail, Coca Cola was invented and the Statue of Liberty was unveiled in New York Harbor, Will Sparks exhibited his art at the St. Louis Exposition of 1886. It was there that Mark Twain, whose Adventures of Huckleb