First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.
year: 2012
call number/section: 979.4
subjects: sawyer, tom, 1832-1906, twain, mark, 1835-1910, friends and associates, sources, adventure stories, san francisco, biography, fire fighters, fires, history, 19th century, arson, sawyer, tom (fictitious character), san francisco (calif.), biography, history, 19th century