Mark Twain, noted author of Life on the Mississippi, Roughing It, and Innocents Abroad had a penchant for exaggerating aspects of his life to make it read more like a dime novel than like his real life (e.g., the famous scene in Roughing It where Mark and company get lost in a snowstorm and finally find some tracks that they follow, but find as they do that even more tracks are joined to the path which gives them increased confidence until they find that the are circling). Let’s say that Twain loved a good yarn.
Well now its his turn to be featured in his own Western at http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Legend-of-Sv
The premise for the story is that a set of notes detailing the whole expedition were found in Twain’s autobiography which is just now being release a century after Twain’s death.
The story has just enough Western sex, violence and mystery with the James Gang, Gatling guns, river boats, and psychopathic killers to make it an interesting read; and the author promises to use the facts only when they don’t get in the way.