Sid Fleischman
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English
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Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth. So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens.
Abandoning a career as a young steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, Sam took a bumpy stagecoach to the far West. In the gold and silver fields, he expected to get rich quick. Instead, he got
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California Gold Rush novels volume 1
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English
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A gentleman's gentleman from Boston flees to the wilds of California during the Gold Rush and becomes a hero.
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