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Extract from the Hannibal Travel Guides:
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 l...
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