Mark Twain's West: The Author's Memoirs about His Boyhood, Riverboats and Western Adventures (The Lakeside Classics, Vol. 81)

liii, 450 pp. "An original composition of Mark Twain's reminisces organized by Walter Blair. The author vividly describes a series of illustrative vignettes from his westward travels earlier in his life. Blair's footnotes provide occasional insightful context, and suggest locations in the stories where Twain may have downplayed or exaggerated certain situations."