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Morris, Roy, Jr.
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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.
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Lighting out for the...
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Lighting out for the territory : how Samuel Clemens headed West and became Mark Twain / Roy Morris, Jr.
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Morris, Roy, Jr.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2010.
Subjects
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.
ISBN:
9781416598664 (hardcover) :
1416598669 (hardcover)
9781416598671 (pbk.)
1416598677 (pbk.)
Description:
xiv, 282 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
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.
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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.
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
818.403 Twain Mo
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Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
818.403 Twain Mo
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Mililani Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
818.403 Twain Mo
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Waialua Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
818.403 Mo
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