Title: Mark Twain's West : the author's memoirs about his boyhood, riverboats and western adventures /
Authors: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910; Blair, Walter, 1900-1992
Publisher: Lakeside Press,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Twain, Mark,; Twain, Mark, Childhood and youth.; River boats.; Authors, American Biography; West (U.S.) Description and travel.; Missouri Social life and customs.; Mississippi River Description and travel.
Contents: Historical introduction -- Ancestors stretching back to Noah's time -- A heavenly place for a boy -- The most eloquent person I have heard speak -- Villagers -- Orion and Sam Clemens, printers -- To be a steamboatman -- The shape of the river -- A curious and wonderful science -- Extra lessons and a catastrophe -- A campaign that failed -- Across plains and deserts -- On toward the setting sun -- The end of our long journey -- Landowners -- Silver fever -- City editor -- A pair of hoaxes -- Exiled from Nevada by request -- San Francisco reporter -- Jackass Gulch, Angel's Camp, and a famous frog -- Jim Gillis and an imaginary cat -- Baker's bluejay yarn -- Enchanted islands -- Other notable things -- End of a seven-year "pleasure trip."