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Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in 1883. It is also a travel book, recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul, many years after the war.
Life on the Mississippi is a made-for-television feature film, based loosely on the 1883 book of the same title by Mark Twain. It was directed by Peter H. Hunt, and starred David Knell as the young Mark Twain and Robert Lansing as his teacher, Horace Bixby. Marcy Walker, who later appeared on All My Children, played a character named Emmeline.
Horace Ezra Bixby (May 8, 1826 – August 1, 1912) was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio river system from the late 1840s until his death in 1912. [1] Bixby is notable in his own right for his high standing in his profession, for his technical contributions to it, and for his service in the American Civil War.
[201] The riverboatman's cry was "mark twain" or, more fully, "by the mark twain", meaning "according to the mark [on the line], [the depth is] two [fathoms]"; that is, "The water is 12 feet (3.7 m) deep and it is safe to pass." Twain said that his famous pen name was not entirely his invention. In Life on the Mississippi, Twain wrote:
Old Times on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. A serialized version of the work first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly Magazine published in 1875. It was later incorporated into his 1883 work, Life on the Mississippi.
The end of Twain's service on the Pennsylvania was brought about by his stormy relationship with its pilot, William Brown, which is described in his 1883 book Life on the Mississippi. Just prior to his departure, he arranged a post for his brother, Henry on the steamship as "Mud Clerk".
Isaiah Sellers (c. 1802–1864) was the riverboat captain from whom Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) claimed to have appropriated the pen name Mark Twain.. The story of how Clemens started to use the name is told in chapter 50 of Life on the Mississippi and is summarized in the main article on Mark Twain.
In "Life on the Mississippi" (Chapter 29), Mark Twain gives an inflated and gory account of the various crimes of Murrell (his spelling "Murel") and attributes his capture and conviction to a Mr. Stewart. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Injun Joe and his accomplice find a treasure which they believe to be spoils from Murrell's robberies.
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