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WHO AM I Project

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.

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WHO AM I Project

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  1. WHO AM I Project • From http://hadley.usd259.org/subjects/schockprojects/WhoamIppt.htm

  2. He spent some time with the Confederate militia

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

  4. He wrote Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

  5. He had two brothers and one sister

  6. He was a steamboat pilot

  7. In 1861 he rode with his brother Orion in Ben Holladay’s OverlandMail stagecoach west to Nevada. 

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

  9. He married a woman named Olivia Langdon in 1870

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

  11. He died of a heart disease in 1910

  12. Mark Twain also know as Samuel Clemens

  13. Work Cited • http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/writ102/marktwain.htm • http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/western_names/twain_mark/twain_mark.html

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