Lighting out for the territory : how Samuel Clemens headed West and became Mark Twain /
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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2010]
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| Edition: | 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781416598664 (hardcover) 1416598669 (hardcover) 9781416598671 (pbk.) 1416598677 (pbk.) |