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Nov 23, 2013 · Young Samuel Clemens dreams of being a steamboat captain on the Mighty Mississippi in this rousing musical adaptation of Mark Twain’s memoir.
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in 1883. It is also a travel book, recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul, many years after the war.
- Mark Twain
- 1883
Young Sam Clemens and his little brother Henry have stumbled across the chance of a lifetime. The two find themselves aboard a Mississippi River steamboat, where Sam becomes apprentice to the boat’s pilot.
Nov 4, 2013 · Produced by the WorkShop Theater Company, “Life on the Mississippi” is a fun, musical play celebrating Mark Twain’s story of a steamboat adventure. Young Sam Clemens and his brother Henry step onto a Mississippi steamboat.
In “Life on the Mississippi,” a new musical based on Mark Twain’s autobiographical coming-of-age classic, the young Samuel Clemens leaves home to learn steamboat piloting on a Mississippi riverboat in 1858 and, in the process, finds himself learning about life.
Feb 24, 2018 · The Mississippi receives and carries to the Gulf water from fifty-four subordinate rivers that are navigable by steamboats, and from some hundreds that are navigable by flats and keels.
Young Samuel Clemens leaves home in Hannibal to be a cub pilot on a Mississippi steamboat in 1857 and unexpectedly finds himself learning about life…and death…and love…and writing. All while navigating his way from boy to man and from Samuel Clemens to Mark Twain.