Lighting out for the territory : how Samuel Clemens headed West and became Mark Twain
Morris, Roy.
Lighting out for the territory : how Samuel Clemens headed West and became Mark Twain - New York : Simon & Schuster, 3/1/2013 - xiv, 282 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
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.
9781416598664 (hardcover) 1416598669 (hardcover) 9781416598671 (pbk.) 1416598677 (pbk.)
2009049221
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.
Lighting out for the territory : how Samuel Clemens headed West and became Mark Twain - New York : Simon & Schuster, 3/1/2013 - xiv, 282 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
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.
9781416598664 (hardcover) 1416598669 (hardcover) 9781416598671 (pbk.) 1416598677 (pbk.)
2009049221
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.