WHO AM I Project

• From http://hadley.usd259.org/subjects/schockprojects/WhoamIppt.htm

He spent some time with the Confederate militia

• He is a writer and a worked as a printer’s apprentice and a typesetter.

He wrote Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

• He had two brothers and one sister

• He was a steamboat pilot

• In 1861 he rode with his brother Orion in Ben Holladay’s Overland Mail stagecoach west to Nevada. 

• He became a reporter and writer for the Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise in 1862 until 1864.

• He married a woman named Olivia Langdon in 1870

• In 1865, he received public attention nationwide with the publication of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

• He died of a heart disease in 1910

Mark Twain also know as Samuel Clemens

Work Cited

•http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/writ102/marktwain.htm

• http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/western_names/

twain_mark/twain_mark.html