03007cam a2200373 4500 599190878 TxAuBib 20220602120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780792786924 0792786920 c3e31789-f760-4dac-bf76-64efd6e6b0ef OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1013053 OverDrive (Product ID) 9781982485733 9781982485733 TxAuBib Fleischman, Sid. The Trouble Begins at 8 [Libby] : A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West. Blackstone Publishing, 2012. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 82MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 82MB. HTML:<p>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 poor fast, digging in the wrong places. His stint as a sagebrush newspaperman led to a duel with pistols. Had he not survived, the world would never have heard of Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn—or red-headed Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens adopted his pen name in a hotel room in San Francisco and promptly made a jumping frog (and himself) famous. His celebrated novels followed at a leisurely pace; his quips at jet speed. "Don't let schooling interfere with your education," he wrote. Here, in high style, is the story of a wisecracking adventurer who came of age in the untamed West; an ink-stained rebel who surprised himself by becoming the most famous American of his time.</p>. Juvenile Nonfiction. Biography & Autobiography. Media Type: Audiobook. Best Fiction for Young Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-31 20:00:03. Barrett, Joe. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/1013053-TheTroubleBeginsAt8.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/1013053-TheTroubleBeginsAt8.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C3E31789-F760-4DAC-BF76-64EFD6E6B0EF&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/1013053-TheTroubleBeginsAt8.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/1013053-TheTroubleBeginsAt8.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C3E31789-F760-4DAC-BF76-64EFD6E6B0EF&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)