Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians

By: Mark Twain, Lee Nelson

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

In 1885, while The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was becoming one of the best-selling American classics of modern times, Mark Twain began this sequel in which Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Jim head west on the trail of two white girls kidnapped by Sioux warriors.

Fifteen-thousand words into the work, Twain stopped in the middle of a sentence, never to go back. The unfinished story sat on dusty shelves for more than 100 years until author Lee Nelson decided to finish it. The result is a story of adventure, wit, and wisdom with listeners saying they can't tell where Twain leaves off and Nelson begins.

©2003 Lee Nelson; 1968 University of California Press, the Mark Twain Papers, and the Mark Twain Foundation (P)2003 Blackstone Audiobooks

Critic reviews

"Of the half-dozen recorded renditions I've auditioned, this is the one that best expresses the brilliance of Twain's rendering of dialect and a rural boy's sensibility." ( AudioFile)

Fantastic adventures and continuation

Narration is excellent and brings you into the story. Flawless transition from the original text to Lee Nelson's continuation.
The story gets into a humourous view on the settling of the wild west, but still shows the harsh, unforgiving reality that it was. 10/10

Best Mark Twain of all of Mark Twain's...

This book was better than The Adventures of Huck Finn, which most consider to be Twain's masterpiece. I liked Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians more than any other Twain work. Even if you only read the 15,000 words that Twain wrote, which is roughly 25% of the book (two hours of listening pleasure), you will be amazed by Twain at his adult best. This is no juvenile fiction...like Twain's other works...Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective, etc,..., . The book examines how each character grows and develops from the childish personalities exhibited in other books, into fully developed complex adults. Tom comes to realize that 'book' Indians in the adventure novels he has read, do not act like 'real' Indians in the real world, and 'book' women in his romanticized novels do not act like 'real' women. Like Don Quixote awakening from his fantasies, Tom comes to realize that he can't believe everything he reads in books, James Fennimore Cooper and Sir Walter Scott, being just some of the authors that Twain skewers. And Huck comes to realize how to rely on his own instinct for what's right and wrong, rather than be guided by the often intolerant and bigoted social morays of his time, . Even former slave Jim grows and develops an awareness of what being free really means, after living among the wild Indians and being treated like an equal for the first time in his life.

If you're expecting the same old juvenile, silly nonsense Twain usually put out, hold onto your seats when you read this one. Best book I've listened to on Audible. Best Twain book I've ever read.

Two Authors That Mixed Quite Well

Before reading this book, I never knew that Mark Twain hadn't finished any books. Not sure why I didn't think of that though, several other authors hadn't. Likewise, I wasn't sure how much the individual authors had written. I am grateful that Twain had been able to introduce the thought that Peggy was still worthy of Huck's love in spite of some other happenings. Much of what transpired there cemented in my mind that Huck was by far the superior character in my book. Lee Nelson faithfully carried that on and largely kept the same feeling to the book. I tend to think that Twain would have ended this story with a successful rescue of Peggy from the Indians, but I really enjoyed Nelson's story too and hope to read more by him.

Huck and his Navy Colt

great book Huck Finn and Tom go on Grand adventures with Indians and mormans and evil trapper

I loved this book

Worth repeating. A real roller coaster ride of a read. I think Mark Twain would approve.