When Did Mark Twain Pilot A Steamboat?
When Did Mark Twain Pilot A Steamboat? On April 9, 1859, a 23-year-old Missouri youth named Samuel Langhorne Clemens receives his steamboat pilot’s license. Clemens had signed on as a pilot’s apprentice in 1857 while on his way to Mississippi. Why did Twain become a riverboat pilot? By the time he was 12, both of