Lighting out for the territory
Subtitle: how Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain
By: Roy Morris, Jr.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781416598664; 9781416598671
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
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A campaign that failed; title: A fine pleasure trip; title: The damnedest country under the sun; title: Enterprise; title: Heaven on the half shell; title: Luxurious vagrancy; title: The trouble begins.