In 1857, he decided to go to South America to sell cocaine, but on his way south he met Horace Bixby, who took him on as an apprentice.
In 1857, he decided to go to South America to sell cocaine, but on his way south he met Horace Bixby, who took him on as an apprentice. When his brother Orion became secretary of the Nevada Territory, he followed him west and became a reporter, beginning a writing career that would include such books as Following the Equator, The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, and The Innocents Abroad. FTP, identify this American writer of Roughing It, The Mysterious Stranger, and Life on the Mississippi.
In 1857, he decided to go to South America to sell cocaine, but on his way south he met Horace Bixby, who took him on as an apprentice.
Mark {Twain} or Samuel {Clemens}