Essay, Research Paper: Mark Twain - Summary

Samuel Clemens was born and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. This was the home of
his later characters Tom Sawer and Huck Finn. In these books he incorporated such
features that really existed in Hannibal; features such as Holidays Hill, Bear Creek
and L In his late teens, Clemens left Hannibal on a riverboat to become a printer in St.
Louis. He moved up in the ranks of printing and moved to New York and eventually to
Washington D.C. Clemens remembered how much fun he had had on the riverboat
and how g Mark Twain stopped piloting the riverboat in 1861, at the start of the Civil
War, to join the Union. He went to war for two weeks and left immediately after being
involved in the shooting of a civilian. He said he knew retreating better than it's inven
He soon decided to travel 1,700 miles from the Missouri Territory , to the Nevada
Territory. He passed through Overland City, Horseshoe City, and many large and
small cities in between.
Clemens commented that Salt Lake City was healthy. He said that the city had one
doctor who was arrested once a week for lack of work. Virginia City was very lively
from all of the gold and silver found near. He commented that the saloons, courts and
Inspired by the vein of silver as wide as a New York City street under Virginia City,
Twain decided to go prospecting. Many people went prospecting crazy but Twain
thought it must have skipped over him. After not finding any silver, he wrote a book cal
Clemens soon went to San Francisco and took a job at the San Francisco Times.
From them he got the title of "The Most Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope". He
wanted to travel, so he boarded a ship to Hawaii, also known as the Sandwich
Islands. From t Twain soon felt he was in a strange world that had developed so
much from his small town of Hannibal. "My heart is in my own century," Twain
said,"but I wish the twentieth well." There were other great phrases that he said, such
as: "I was young and fo Clemens eventually bought a house on Long Island which he
named Stormfield and stayed there through his final days. Samuel Clemens was born
in 1835, the night of the Haley's Comet. He always said that he thought he would go
out with the comet just as h