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[begin page 344] Reagan, Jim (Jimmy). In a 1902 letter Clemens told Anna Laura Hawkins Frazer that the “‘new boy’” in one of his books “was Jim Reagan—just from St. Louis” (“Laura Hawkins Frazer Always Remembered as Idol of His Boyhood,” Hannibal Evening Courier-Post, 6 Mar 1935, 3C). The book was Tom Sawyer (1876), in chapter one of which Tom challenges a newcomer to a fight. In “Boy’s Manuscript” (2, 8–10, 14), Reagan possibly was the model for Billy Rogers’s rival, Jim Riley. Reagan is mentioned in “Villagers” (105).
