![]() This included circuses and tradesmen, such as blacksmiths who made a show of their skills for all to see. People from all over Missouri visited Hannibal. ![]() A steamboat was a large, white steam-powered boat before gas was used to power boats. Three times a day steamboats blew their whistle as they stopped in Hannibal. Hannibal was a busy town and exciting for a boy of Samuel’s age. When Samuel was 4 his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a town on the banks of the Mississippi River. She was very funny and loved to tell stories and make jokes. Later Samuel said he never remembered his father laughing. He dreamed of making a lot of money for his family, but most of his businesses didn’t do well. With their big family, his father was always very busy trying to find work to support the family. For many years he was an unhealthy child and his mother always worried about his health. He was their sixth child and was born early. ![]() On November 30, 1835, a boy named Samuel was born to John and Jane Clemens in the United States in Missouri. ![]() You are in the bustling town of Hannibal, Missouri, which will someday become famous because of a certain child who grew up here. The riverboat’s whistle blows and soon the boat docks and you load off with a large group of people. The year is 1835 and people are chatting in excitement because the boat is about to stop in the next town. ![]() This isn’t a small boat, this is a very big, shiny white boat, full of people floating down a great river called the Mississippi. ![]()
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