Life on the Mississippi

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"The Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river but on the contrary is in all ways remarkable."— Mark Twain

0riginally published in 1883, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's memoir of his youthful years as a cub pilot on a steamboat paddling up and down the Mississippi River. Twain used his childhood experiences growing up along the Mississippi in a number of works, including The Adventures of Tom Sawy...