I recently wrote an undergraduate paper on Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn as modern myth and I ran across this article while researching. Really fascinating. It really helped support my paper's point. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Fred Harwood <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Perhaps of interest to the forum: > > = > http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Adventures-of-the-Re= > al-Tom-Sawyer-169773916.html?c=3Dy&story=3Dfullstory > > > > Fred Harwood > Linwood Cottage > Sheffield >