In the Feb./March issue of _American Heritage_, Arther Schlesinger Jr. lists his 13 picks for the most important books of American history. Appropriatly, _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ is sandwiched between the Federalist Papers, the writings of Jefferson, Tocqueville, Emerson, Lincoln and _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ on one side and, after Twain, Henry Adams, H.L. Menken, William James, James Brice (_The American Commonwealth_), and others in the 20th century. Schlesinger points to the climatic scene in _Huck_ as representing the classic American struggle between the individual and absolutism. In the magazine's next article, "All That Glitters is Not Gold," Richard Renehart mentions Twain twice, noting that two decades after the Gold Rush of '49, Twain helped shape the image of the period in "The Celebrated jumping Frog" despite the fact he was neither a '49er or a Californian. It's an interesting article--did you know Levi's were invented in San Francisco during this period? Wes Britton