Lighting out for the territory : how Samuel Clemens headed West and became Mark Twain / Roy Morris, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Roy, Jr.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Travel--West (U.S.).

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Travel.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--West (U.S.).

Authors, American--Homes and haunts.

West (U.S.)--Intellectual life--19th century.

West (U.S.)--Description and travel.

West (U.S.)--In literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2010]

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781416598664

1416598669

9781416598671

1416598677

OCLC:

424555374