The reconstruction of Mark Twain: how a Confederate bushwhacker became the Lincoln of our literature

"The killing of strangers" : Mark Twain's Missouri and the Civil War, 1835-1861

"I naturally love a Yankee" : Twain's civil war in Nevada, 1861-1864

"The genative, dative, and ablative cases of traitors" : Twain's San Francisco satires, 1864-1866

Seeking a reputation "That shall stand fire" : Twain, Reconstruction, and the impeachment crisis in Washington, 1866-1869

The "Lincoln of our literature" : the reconstructed Mark Twain, 1870-1910.