• 1800

    Twain died
  • 1835

    Born in 1835, Samuel Clemens grew up in the small river town of Hannibal, Missouri
  • 1847

    After his father's death in 1847. Clemen was force to live school and became a pinter's apprentice.
  • 1850

    He published a few stories and traveled the country.
  • 1861

    He decided to became a riverboat pilot.
  • 1862

    Clemens took a job as a reporter on a virginia City newspaper, where he found his calling as a humorist under the byline Mark Twain
  • 1865

    Twain published a short story entitled "The Notorius Jumping Frog Of Calaveras county"