English: Book Report: Mark Twain - Summary July 03, 1998 Samuel Clemens was born and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. This was the home of his later characters Tom Sawer and Huck Finn. In these books he incorporated such features that really existed in Hannibal; features such as Holidays Hill, Bear Creek and L In his late teens, Clemens left Hannibal on a riverboat to become a printer in St. Louis. He moved up in the ranks of printing and moved to New York and eventually to Washington D.C. Clemens remembered how much fun he had had on the riverboat and how g Mark Twain stopped piloting the riverboat in 1861, at the start of the Civil War, to join the Union. He went to war for two weeks and left immediately after being involved in the shooting of a civilian. He said he knew retreating better than itÕs inven He soon decided to travel 1,700 miles from the Missouri Territory , to the Nevada Territory. He passed through Overland City, Horseshoe City, and many large and small cities in between. Clemens commented that Salt Lake City was healthy. He said that the city had one doctor who was arrested once a week for lack of work. Virginia City was very lively from all of the gold and silver found near. He commented that the saloons, courts and Inspired by the vein of silver as wide as a New York City street under Virginia City, Twain decided to go prospecting. Many people went prospecting crazy but Twain thought it must have skipped over him. After not finding any silver, he wrote a book cal Clemens soon went to San Francisco and took a job at the San Francisco Times. From them he got the title of ÒThe Most Wild Humorist of the Pacific SlopeÓ. He wanted to travel, so he boarded a ship to Hawaii, also known as the Sandwich Islands. From t Twain soon felt he was in a strange world that had developed so much from his small town of Hannibal. ÒMy heart is in my own century,Ó Twain said,Óbut I wish the twentieth well.Ó There were other great phrases that he said, such as: ÒI was young and fo Clemens eventually bought a house on Long Island which he named Stormfield and stayed there through his final days. Samuel Clemens was born in 1835, the night of the HaleyÕs Comet. He always said that he thought he would go out with the comet just as h