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Mark Twain's Civil War
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Mark Twain
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-12 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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When the Civil War halted steamboat travel on the Mississippi River in 1861, an unemployed riverboat pilot named Samuel Clemens enlisted in the Missouri militia
Lighting Out for the Territory
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: Roy Jr. Morris
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-02 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the title character gloomily reckons that it’s time “to light out for the Terri
Confederate Bushwhacker
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Jerome Loving
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-22 - Publisher: UPNE

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Confederate Bushwhacker is a microbiography set in the most important and pivotal year in the life of its subject. In 1885, Mark Twain was at the peak of his ca
Grant and Twain
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Mark Perry
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-05-10 - Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

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In the spring of 1884 Ulysses S. Grant heeded the advice of Mark Twain and finally agreed to write his memoirs. Little did Grant or Twain realize that this seem
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ...
Language: en
Pages: 606
Authors: Ulysses Simpson Grant
Categories: Generals
Type: BOOK - Published: 1885 - Publisher: New York, C. L. Webster & Company

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Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - a