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Lighting out for the territory : how Samuel Clemens headed West and became Mark Twain / Roy Morris, Jr.

Morris, Roy, Jr.
2010
PS1342.W48 M67 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Lighting out for the territory : how Samuel Clemens headed West and became Mark Twain / Roy Morris, Jr.
Author
Morris, Roy, Jr.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
ISBN
9781416598664
1416598669
9781416598671 (pbk.)
1416598677 (pbk.)
Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
Description
xiv, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Call Number
PS1342.W48 M67 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
818/.403 B
Summary
Acclaimed literary biographer Roy Morris carefully sorts fact from fiction to tell the story of a young genius finding his voice in the ramshackle mining camps, boomtowns, and newspaper offices of the wild and woolly West, while the Civil War rages half a continent away.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
A campaign that failed
A fine pleasure trip
The damnedest country under the sun
Enterprise
Heaven on the half shell
Luxurious vagrancy
The trouble begins
Epilogue : sivilized.

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