"Mississippi River Valley" . . "Mississippi River Valley." . . . . "Biography"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Literary nightmare"@en . . . . . . "Old times on the Mississippi"@en . "Old times on the Mississippi" . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Old Times on the Mississippi" . . . "In this 1871 memoir drawing from the life experiences that also produced Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn Twain tells how he achieved his boyhood dream of navigating a steamboat along the treacherous, ever-changing banks of the great river. Written for William Dean Howells's Atlantic magazine, this is the original, shorter version of Life on the Mississippi . This edition also contains the story A Literary Nightmare."@en . . . . . . "In this 1871 memoir drawing from the life experiences that also produced Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn Twain tells how he achieved his boyhood dream of navigating a steamboat along the treacherous, ever-changing banks of the great river. Written for William Dean Howells's Atlantic magazine, this is the original, shorter version of Life on the Mississippi ." . . . . . . . . . . . . "TRAVEL / United States / General" . . . . "Travel." . . "1800 - 1899" . . "Manners and customs." . . "Mississippi River" . . "Mississippi River." .