![]() Here’s the problem: This book is neither fish nor fowl – not a full attempt to ape Twain’s style, nor a clean break into a fresh perspective. This makes for entertaining reading … but it ain’t Huck Finn. Nelson leads Huck across the country, where he comes in contact with a pedophile army officer, Mormon gunslingers, ex-slave “Injun” chiefs, dirty trappers – all the flotsam and jetsam of the mythic American West. Gone is the dialect and the side-of-the-mouth humor. Nelson fills Huck with tingly feelings for the “violated” female captive. Within a dozen pages, Nelson has the indomitable Tom Sawyer sobbing. Tom & Huck follow in an attempt to save them … and Twain falls silent. Jim, a child, and a young woman are kidnapped. They travel with a migrating family and barely escape an Indian attack. Huck, Tom & Jim have decided to go west in search of adventure. ![]() ![]() Lee Nelson, author of western adventures, has dared to finish it.įor the first fifty-six pages we are regaled with Twain’s winking humor, his keen ear for dialect, and his grand storytelling skill. ![]() Though Twain subsequently published many books, he abandoned this novel in mid-sentence. ![]() In 1885 Mark Twain began a sequel to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians ![]()
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