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MARK TWAIN IN MISSOURI Henry Sweets, Curator Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum

Mark Twain’s Travel and Experiences in Missouri

● Florida

● ● Hannibal Florida

● ● Hannibal Florida●Louisiana c. 1848

● ● Hannibal Florida●Louisiana St. Louis ●

● ● Hannibal Florida ●Louisiana St. Louis ● Paris ● 1855

● ● Hannibal Florida ●Louisiana St. Louis ● Paris ● 1857 

● ● Hannibal Florida ●Louisiana St. Louis ● Paris ● 1861 New London ● ● St. Joseph

● ● Hannibal Florida ●Louisiana St. Louis ● Paris ● 1902 New London ● ● St. Joseph ● Columbia

Real Names Used in HisLiterature

●St. Louis Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn Roughing It Pudd’nhead Wilson Tom Sawyer Abroad

● St. Louis Huckleberry Finn Pike County

● St. Louis Roughing It Pike County ● St. Joseph

● St. Louis Life on the Mississippi Pike County ● St. Joseph ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Marion City Hannibal Louisiana LaGrange Canton Alexandria St. Genevieve Cape Girardeau Commerce New Madrid

● St. Louis Autobiography Pike County ● St. Joseph ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Marion City Hannibal Louisiana LaGrange Canton Alexandria St. Genevieve Cape Girardeau Commerce New Madrid ●Monroe County Florida ●Saverton

Real Places Fictionalized

● Hannibal St.Petersburg Eseldorf Dawson’s Landing Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer Abroad The Chronicle of Young Satan No. 44 – The Mysterious Stranger Pudd’nhead WIlson

● Hannibal Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn Holliday’s Hill Cardiff Hill Simm’s Cave McDougal’s Cave Mark Twain Cave

● Hannibal Tom Sawyer ● Palmyra Constantinople

● Hannibal Huckleberry Finn ●Palmyra● Marion City Goshen

● Hannibal Huckleberry Finn ●Palmyra● Marion City ●Saverton Hookerville ↓ Bainbridge Booth’s Landing

Pure Fiction

The Gilded Age Hawkeye - Florida Swansea – 5 miles from Hawkeye Napoleon – 10 miles from Hawkeye Stone’s Landing Magnolia Harding – SW corner of state

The Gilded Age Goose Run Goose Creek Columbia River

Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer Among the Indians Huck and Jim from hemp farm on western border Tom Sawyer Abroad Huck and Jim – couple of sap headed country yahoos out in the backwoods of Missouri

Missouri on the Move

Jackson’s Island 3 miles below St. Petersburg Dawson’s Landing Half a day by steamboat below St. Louis Phelps’ Farm Arkansas

Mark Twain Knew and Used Missouri

Henry Sweets, Curator Mark Twain Museum 120 North Main Street Hannibal MO ext. 405