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Author Morris, Roy, author.

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

Edition First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2010]
©2010
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1808749~S1
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 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  818.403 TWA    AVAILABLE
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Description xiv, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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.
Subject Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- West (U.S.)
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
West (U.S.) -- In literature.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9781416598664 (hardcover)
1416598669 (hardcover)
9781416598671 (pbk.)
1416598677 (pbk.)
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