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The life of Mark Twain : the early years, 1835-1871
—Scharnhorst, Gary, author.
2018

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"In this first volume, Scharnhorst covers Clemen's life from his childhood Missouri to his work in printshops, from his career as a Mississippi River pilot to his writing stint in Nevada, and from his trip to Europe and the Holy Land o his move east to Buffalo, New York."--Inside dust jacket.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9780826221445
  • 0826221440

Description: xxxi, 686 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

  • Ancestry
  • The villages
  • Hannibal
  • Journeyman printer
  • The river
  • The war
  • The mines
  • Virginia City
  • From Virginia City to San Francisco
  • San Francisco
  • Sandwich Islands
  • San Francisco redux
  • New York
  • The voyage
  • Washington, D.C.
  • The West revisited
  • Hartford, Elmira, and Buffalo
  • Buffalo exitus.

LCCN: 2017044383

Control Number: 2472978

Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2018]
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