A Sagebrush Soul

<p><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>John Isaac Jones's new biographical novel on Samuel Langhorne Clemens A/K/A Mark Twain brings the fascinating life of America's most famous humorist to you in vivid captivating detail.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>His time - 1840s-1910 America. Wagon trains moving west; California gold rush; telegraph invented; War between the States; Lincoln assassinated; the golden spike; Custer massacred; the trail of tears; invention of electric light the telephone and the automobile; the Spanish-American War; political events leading to WWI.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>His loves - His strait-laced highly-religious mother Jane who vowed he was born to be hanged!; Laura Hawkins his childhood sweetheart to whom he was unable to commit; Ina Coolbrith the beautiful California poetess and lover who vowed to hold him; his beloved wife Olivia who urged him to become a serious writer; his oldest daughter Susy whom he worshipped from the day she was born until the day of her death.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>His genius - Samuel Langhorne Clemens news reporter steamboat pilot gold miner lecturer speculator publisher world-traveler adventurer author of the classic Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn books; singlehandedly invented the travelogue genre; his later books </span><em style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>including A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Roughing it Life on the Mississippi</em><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)> and the short story </span><em style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County</em><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)> earned him the title The Father of American Literature.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(24 24 24 1)>This is the second volume in the Great American Authors Series. The first was A Quiet Madness: A Biographical Novel of Edgar Allan Poe.</span></p>