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Lighting Out for the Territory

by | Jul 4, 2010 | Western Books

Roy Morris, Jr. (Simon & Schuster, $26)
In July 1861, 25-year-old Sam Clemens left Missouri with his brother to head to the West. He wasn’t necessarily avoiding the Civil War, but he was no rabble-rouser and a pretty bad shot. Sam instead wandered for six years through Nebraska, South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, California and eventually even Hawaii. As a staff writer for Nevada’s Territorial Enterprise, he began using what w


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