Mark Twain (pseudonym for Samuel Clemens) is perhaps America's most widely read author. He has been called the chronicler of the Mississippi. Excerpts from Twain's most famous stories of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are recited and illustrated by pictures and paintings of the Mississippi. A narrator relates how Twain's work clearly reflects Twain's youth and life experience. Twain's remarkable life came to an equally remarkable end when he went out with Haley's comet in 1910, as he predicted he would. This film is a tribute to one of the greatest classics of American literature.