The complete online text of Life on the Mississippi, Part 6. by Mark Twain.

An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distinguished contemporaries. Biographers have emphasized th...

Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had known by the Mississippi River in those halcyon years be...

In the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was another in a long series of migrations which the family...

It's a lot of trees--and more--no matter how you look at the forest. On March 17, it was announced that Weyerhaeuser Company had entered into an agreement to sell its containerboard packaging and recycling (CBPR) business to International Paper for $6 billion in...

It's a lot of trees - and more - no matter how you look at the forest. On March 17, it was announced that Weyerhaeuser Company had entered into an agreement to sell its containerboard packaging and recycling (CBPR) business to International Paper for...