Journalism: Vol 1: 1851-1863  (The Archive of American Journalism)

This first volume in The Archive of American Journalism includes news articles, editorials, eyewitness reports, cultural observations, satires, spoofs, squibs and all-around journalistic fun and entertainment from the renowned Samuel Langhorne Clemens, a/k/a Mark Twain, author of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and other required reading well known to students and censors alike. Adults, children, adolescents, teachers, researchers, historians and casual readers will all discover here a useful and interesting source of Twain's earliest writings -- complete, arranged in chronological order, and listed by original source and date of publication, from 1851 through 1863. Browsing through the collection opens a door to a rambunctious and dramatic frontier society, seen at street level through the youthful eyes of America's leading humorist.