The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889). 
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). He also patented several inventions during his career, including: A convoluted trivia board game called Memory Builder, which required an extensive knowledge of figures, dates, and events across European and American history a self-adhesive scrapbook that worked much like an envelope and an adjustable, detachable garment clasp that was primarily intended for suspenders, but ended up being used mostly for bras. The Mark Twain National Forest could’ve been named after a different famous Missourian.Ī scene from Mark Twain's novel 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' immortalized on a postage stamp. For more than a century, visitors have examined the walls for some sign of the author’s time there-and, during a tour in July 2019, one hawk-eyed spelunker finally spotted the word Clemens among the other names that line the walls. 
Mark Twain was known to have spent his boyhood exploring the three miles of passageways in a cave in Hannibal, Missouri, that would later become the inspiration for a scene in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Samuel Clemens's signature was discovered in the Mark Twain Cave in July 2019. He claimed the idea came from his stint as a Mississippi River steamboat captain before the Civil War-sailors used to call out “mark twain!” to identify when the water was two fathoms (or 12 feet) deep. Thomas Kelley/iStock via Getty ImagesĪfter trying out other aliases like “Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass” and “Sergeant Fathom,” Samuel Langhorne Clemens adopted “ Mark Twain” in 1863.
The sight of a paddle steamer is synonymous with Mark Twain.
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