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The Mississippi River, known as "America's River" and Mark Twain are practically synonymous in American culture. The acceptance of Twain's steamboat and steamboat pilot on the ever-changing Mississippi has endured for over a century. A brilliant amalgam of remembrance and reportage, by turns satiric, celebratory, nostalgic, and melancholy, Life on the Mississippi evokes the great river that Mark Twain knew as a son and young man and the one he revisited as an adult and successful writer. Written between your publication of his two best novels, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Twain's wealthy portrait of the Mississippi grades a distinctive changeover in the life of the river and the nation, from the increase years preceding the Civil Conflict to the sober times that adopted it. Samuel Clemens became a certified river pilot at age twenty-four under the apprenticeship of Horace Bixby, pilot of the Paul Jones. His name, Mark Twain, was derived from the river pilot term talking about safe navigating conditions, or "mark two fathoms." This term was shortened to "mark twain" by the leadsmen whose job it was to monitor the water's depth and report it to the pilot. Although Mark Twain used his child years experiences growing up along the Mississippi in various works, nowhere is the river and the pilot's life more carefully identified than in Life on the Mississippi. MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) was created Samuel L. Clemens in the city of Florida, Missouri. One of the most popular and important authors our region has ever before produced, his eager wit and incisive satire acquired him compliment from both critics and peers. He has been called not only the greatest humorist of his years but the father of American books.

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