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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Morris, Roy.     Subjects     Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- West (U.S.).     Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.).     Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.     Humorists, American -- 19th century -- Biography.     West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.     West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.     West (U.S.) -- In literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Morris, Roy.       by title:      Lighting out for the...       by call number:      921 T969L     Search the Web     Morris, Roy.     Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- West (U.S.).     Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.).     Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.     Humorists, American -- 19th century -- Biography.     West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.     West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.     West (U.S.) -- In literature.       MARC Display

Lighting out for the territory : how Samuel Clemens headed West and became Mark Twain / Roy Morris, Jr. by Morris, Roy. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011, c2010. Call #: 921 T969L Subjects Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- West (U.S.).   Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.).   Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.   Humorists, American -- 19th century -- Biography.   West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.   West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.   West (U.S.) -- In literature. ISBN:  9781416598671 (2011 pbk.) 1416598677 (2011 pbk.) 9781416598664 (hardcover) 1416598669 (hardcover) Edition:  1st Simon & Schuster trade paperback ed. Description:  xiv, 282 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-267) and index. 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. Summary:  A rollicking, hilarious stagecoach journey across the Great Plains and over the Rocky Mountains was just the beginning of a nearly six-year-long odyssey that took unemployed riverboat pilot Samuel Clemens from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Hawaii, with lengthy stopovers in Virginia City, Nevada, and San Francisco while the Civil War raged half a continent away. By the time his journey was over, Clemens found himself reborn as Mark Twain, America’s best-loved, most influential writer. With a pitch-perfect blend of appreciative humor and critical authority, acclaimed literary biographer Roy Morris, Jr., sheds new light on this crucial but largely unexamined period in Mark Twain’s life. 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. It’s a good story, and mostly true—with some stretchers thrown in for good measure. -- From back cover. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 921 T969L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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