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...CLEMENS OF HANNIBAL (335 pp )-Dixon Wecter-Houghton Mifflin...
...snake in his pocket, who lived in the drowsy Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Mo. in the 1840s. In Sam Clemens of Hannibal, the story of Sam's Great American Boyhood is told for the first time in full detail by the late Dixon Wecter, editor of the still unpublished* Mark Twain Papers...
Models in Manuscript. Author Wecter brings to life the real models of dozens of people and incidents in Mark Twain's books. Huck Finn was Tom Blankenship, the happy, shiftless son of a ne'er-do-well drunk. Sid Sawyer was modeled after Sam's own brother Henry. "Injun Joe," sometimes known as "Injun Aleck," was a drifter from Oklahoma who, according to rumor, had once "somehow lost his interest" in his mother, and hanged her. There really was a cave downriver from Hannibal, too, and Sam himself was once lost in it with a young lady...
...family. There was variety in the shop, all right (as when a cow wandered in one night, upset a tray of type, munched on several ink-rollers, wandered out again), but the golden days were almost over, and Sam began to wonder how he could ever get them back. Wecter's book leaves him still wondering, as he wondered all his life, until at last he reached the conclusion that "I should greatly like to re-live my youth, and then get drowned...
Died. Dixon Wecter, 44, research director of California's Huntington Library, author of The Saga of American Society, When Johnny Comes Marching Home and other scholarly studies of U.S. history and folkways; of a heart attack; in Sacramento...