Mark Twain and the Hanging Judge

Davey Bond is a 14 -year-old boy from Sacramento, California who is on the run in the summer of 1862 from a brutal guardian. On the Reno road he falls in with a scruffy young man in his 20s named Sam Clemens. Sam is a former Mississippi river boat pilot and printer. He’s also a failed gold miner who found himself “allergic to long-handled shovels.” Together they head for the raucous silver mining town of Virginia City, Nevada where Sam has been offered a reporting job on the Territorial Enterprise...