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HANNIBAL might well have been just
another medium-sized river settlement, had not Samuel Langhorne
Clemens, who renamed himself Mark Twain after
the cry of pilots on the Mississippi, spent his boyhood here.
Although Hannibal does have other industries, downtown is little
more than a Twain theme park, with attractions such as museums,
period buildings and wax displays. Just about every business in
town is flogging souvenirs featuring Twain's ashen visage, or
is named for the scribe, including Huck's Taxi Service, Injun
Joe Campground and even the Mark Twain Roofing Company.
Mark Twain wrote surprisingly little about his home
town in his extensive nonfiction works; you could say he spoke
with his feet when he left for good at seventeen to become a journeyman
printer, riverboat pilot, journalist and writer. However, those
of his books most specifically set in Hannibal - The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer and the sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- provide vivid accounts of growing up in the rowdy frontier riverport
he renamed St Petersburg for his books.
