Mark Twain chronicled his experiences living and working out West in his book Roughing It, published in 1872. In this excerpt from the book's fourth chapter, Twain describes his 1861 journey by ...

"An American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person he generally selects Mark Twain." — Thomas Edison Born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, Samuel Clemens moved to ...

This period was one of rapid change ... The city of Hartford grew in this time as a leader in manufacturing many of these goods. And Mark Twain, who grew up during legalized slavery, witnessed ...