The Mark Twain Mission

The Time Travel Adventures Of The 1800 Club is a 21 st Century haven for people seeking to escape New York City's frantic pace. Dressed in clothes their ancestors might have worn during the 1800s, members enjoy foods of the period and read periodicals featuring news of a particular date in the 1800s. However, the 1800 Club also has an astounding secret . . . Time Travel! Members travel back in time, nudging famous persons and key events just enough to ensure history unfolds as it should. Guardians-of-the-past, living in the future, send robotic probes back through the ages, discovered that, at critical time-junctures, pivotal figures stray from vital tasks and actions. These History Watchers of the past can't go back and fix the glitch in the timeline because the atmosphere they breathe has been cleaned up over the years and the air of the past is almost unbreathable for them. Then an 1800 Club member from 2018 is sent back to guarantee that events get back on track. Without subtle interventions by these unknown agents, the famous might have been only footnotes, rather than giants of history.