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010 _a2009049221
020 _a9781416598664 (hardcover) 1416598669 (hardcover) 9781416598671 (pbk.) 1416598677 (pbk.)
100 _aMorris, Roy.
245 _aLighting out for the territory : how Samuel Clemens headed West and became Mark Twain
260 _aNew York :
_bSimon & Schuster,
_c3/1/2013
300 _axiv, 282 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
500 _aAcclaimed 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.
590 _b47500
650 _aTwain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- West (U.S.).
650 _aAuthors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.).
650 _aWest (U.S.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
650 _aWest (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
651 _xWest (U.S.) -- In literature.
852 _oB TWA
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_d31589