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Mark Twain's LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, first published in 1883, is a pre-Civil War memoir of the steamboat era and describes the fulfillment of Twain's childhood dream to become a steamboat pilot. Twain records his observations during his many years of traveling the river from St. Louis to New Orleans and reflects on the people and places of his childhood, the way things looked and felt in the memorable locales of his growing up and his later return to them in maturity.