Little remains of Napoleon, and the descriptions are not grounded in verifiable locations: “On the river front some of the houses was sticking out over the bank, and they was bowed and bent, and about ready to tumble in. Twain referenced Napoleon in his notes for Huckleberry Finn. Twain’s Bricksville fits the location of old Napoleon, a town that had been washed away by the river and abandoned. He is accompanied by his friend Jim, a fugitive slave, as well as two conmen who claim aristocratic status as “duke” and “dauphin.” After he reaches the Arkansas segment of the Mississippi River, Finn observes that “when we was pretty well down the state of Arkansas, we came in sight of a little one-horse town in a big bend.” According to scholar and author Elmo Howell, “ Napoleon, built on a narrow promontory jutting into the confluence of the Arkansas and Mississippi, was the only significant Arkansas village south of Helena, which was built on a bluff.” It is not until chapter 21, “An Arkansaw Difficulty,” that the raft carrying Huckleberry Finn, who escaped from both his drunken father and the attempts of his guardian Miss Watson to civilize him, reaches Arkansas. There has been nothing as good since.” William Faulkner described Twain as “the father of American literature.” According to Ernest Hemingway: “It’s the best book we’ve had. The book contains vivid and humorous descriptions of Arkansas and its people. Twain was familiar with the river from his time as a riverboat pilot in the years immediately before the Civil War and his childhood near the river in Hannibal, Missouri. It was published in 1884 in the United Kingdom and 1885 in the United States, and is set on and around the Mississippi River in the pre-industrial era before the Civil War. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), best known by his pen name Mark Twain.
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