on setting the printers and every so often he would draw comical sketches for the newspaper. After working at this job he worked at three other jobs in Keokuk, Iowa; New York City, New York; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After those jobs Mark Twain was a steamboat captain until the U.S. Civil War. During the civil war he served for only a short time in the Confederate Calvary. In 1863 Samuel Clemens began signing with his pen name, Mark Twain. This is when he really started getting interested in writing more than just short stories and humoristic sketches. In 1865 Mark Twain retold a story that he had heard in the California gold fields, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". Within only a few months of publishing this book he was know around the United States.

Mark twain's work in his later years showed lots of bitterness and anger because of the death of his two daughters and wife. He also was starting to have a des

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