Doug Borchert lectures and concentrates on Mark TwainÕs more famous hoaxes, The Massacre Outside Carson City, The Petrified Man, and the Miscegenation Society and DeQuillieÕs more famous Òquaints,Ó The Rolling Stones of the Pahranagat, The Solar Armour. He will also address the influence that Artemus Ward had on Mark Twain and the visit of Adah Mencken.

Doug Borchert is a native Nevadan who has had a lifelong interest in the Comstock Lode. He developed a set of courses on the Comstock which he has given at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Cal State East Bay, San Francisco State, UC Davis, and the University of the Pacific.