Title: Lighting out for the territory
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.
Subjects: Homes and haunts, Description and travel, Intellectual life, Travel, In literature, American Authors, Twain, mark, 1835-1910, Authors, american, West (u.s.), description and travel, West (u.s.), in literature, United states, intellectual life
Places: West (U.S.)
People: Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Time periods: 19th century