#312 Mark Twain

In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckaberry Finn. Huck reckons that it's time to light out for the territory. Ahead of the rest. It's a decision Huck's creator already had made a quarter of a century earlier. He wasn't even Mark Twain then.

But as Huck might have said That ain't no matter. With the Civil War spreading across his native Missouri, twenty five year old Samuel Clemens, suddenly out of work as a Mississippi riverboat pilot. gladly accepted his brother's offer to join him in the Nevada territory. Far from the battlefields of the war.

A stagecoach journey across the Grey Plains and over the Rocky Mountains was just the beginning of a nearly six year long odyssey. That took Samuel Clemens from Missouri to Hawaii. With stopovers in Virginia City, Nevada, and San Francisco. By the time it was over He would find himself reborn as Mark Twain.

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