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Biography of Samuel Clemens
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 Lover's Leap. Clemens
described the residen ....
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.... 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 prisons were busy and there was a
whiskey mill every fifteen steps.
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 called Roughing It.
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