Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain by Roy Morris Jr.

Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain

Roy Morris Jr.

304 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous funny slow-paced
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In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the title character gloomily reckons that it’s time “to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest.” Tom Sawyer’s Aunt Sally is trying to “sivilize” him, and Huck Finn c...

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