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“Thick as Thieves”: Mark Twain and the West’s Spiritual Frontiers
- The Mark Twain Annual
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 20, 2022
- pp. 38-52
- Article
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Abstract:
This article examines how prominent liberal frontier ministers influenced Mark Twain’s “low” literary calling in the 1860s and how two of them, in particular, influenced Roughing It.