Mark Twain's West
Subtitle: the author's memoirs about his boyhood, riverboats and western adventures
By: edited by Walter Blair
Contributors: Blair, Walter, 1900-
Series: The Lakeside classics -- 81
Publisher: Lakeside Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
Subjects: River boats; Description and travel; Childhood and youth; American Authors; Biography; Social life and customs
Other titles: West
Notes: "Although Mark Twain's West is 99.9% pure Mark Twain, it never before was issued as a book. In it, the editor has put together chronologically a great author's reminiscences, separately published, about his eventful life in pre-Civil War Missouri, on the Mississippi riverboats, and in the Far West between his birth in 1835 and his move to the East in 1866."--P. xxi.

Includes index.

"List of the Lakeside classics": p. [445]-450.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical introduction; title: Ancestors stretching back to Noah's time; title: A heavenly place for a boy; title: The most eloquent person I have heard speak; title: Villagers; title: Orion and Sam Clemens, printers; title: To be a steamboatman; title: The shape of the river; title: A curious and wonderful science; title: Extra lessons and a catastrophe; title: A campaign that failed; title: Across plains and deserts; title: On toward the setting sun; title: The end of our long journey; title: Landowners; title: Silver fever; title: City editor; title: A pair of hoaxes; title: Exiled from Nevada by request; title: San Francisco reporter; title: Jackass Gulch, Angel's Camp, and a famous frog; title: Jim Gillis and an imaginary cat; title: Baker's bluejay yarn; title: Enchanted islands; title: Other notable things; title: End of a seven-year "pleasure trip."