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 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
ISBN 9781416598664
1416598669
9781416598671 (pbk.)
1416598677 (pbk.)
Imprint New York : Simon & Schuster, c2010.
Language English
Description xiv, 282 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., 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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