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MARK TWAIN IN MISSOURI Henry Sweets, Curator Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum
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Mark Twain’s Travel and Experiences in Missouri
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● Florida 1835-1839
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● ● Hannibal Florida 1839-1853
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● ● Hannibal Florida●Louisiana c. 1848
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● ● Hannibal Florida●Louisiana St. Louis ● 1853-1854
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● ● Hannibal Florida ●Louisiana St. Louis ● Paris ● 1855
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● ● Hannibal Florida ●Louisiana St. Louis ● Paris ● 1857
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● ● Hannibal Florida ●Louisiana St. Louis ● Paris ● 1861 New London ● ● St. Joseph
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● ● Hannibal Florida ●Louisiana St. Louis ● Paris ● 1902 New London ● ● St. Joseph ● Columbia
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Real Names Used in HisLiterature
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●St. Louis Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn Roughing It Pudd’nhead Wilson Tom Sawyer Abroad
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● St. Louis Huckleberry Finn Pike County
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● St. Louis Roughing It Pike County ● St. Joseph
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● St. Louis Life on the Mississippi Pike County ● St. Joseph ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Marion City Hannibal Louisiana LaGrange Canton Alexandria St. Genevieve Cape Girardeau Commerce New Madrid
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● 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
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Real Places Fictionalized
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● 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
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● Hannibal Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn Holliday’s Hill Cardiff Hill Simm’s Cave McDougal’s Cave Mark Twain Cave
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● Hannibal Tom Sawyer ● Palmyra Constantinople
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● Hannibal Huckleberry Finn ●Palmyra● Marion City Goshen
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● Hannibal Huckleberry Finn ●Palmyra● Marion City ●Saverton Hookerville ↓ Bainbridge Booth’s Landing
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Pure Fiction
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The Gilded Age Hawkeye - Florida Swansea – 5 miles from Hawkeye Napoleon – 10 miles from Hawkeye Stone’s Landing Magnolia Harding – SW corner of state
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The Gilded Age Goose Run Goose Creek Columbia River
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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
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Missouri on the Move
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Jackson’s Island 3 miles below St. Petersburg Dawson’s Landing Half a day by steamboat below St. Louis Phelps’ Farm Arkansas
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Mark Twain Knew and Used Missouri
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Henry Sweets, Curator Mark Twain Museum 120 North Main Street Hannibal MO 63401 573-221-9010 ext. 405 henry.sweets@marktwainmuseum.org
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