Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among The Indians is Twain’s first attempt to directly parody one of the nineteenth century’s most popular American genres the Indian adventure story. The unfinished novel begins where every other sequel to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins after the boys and Jim return to Missouri and Tom becomes restless.
Rather than amusing romps through popular contemporary genres, this unfinished Twain novel is an illustration of Tom’s bad habit of confusing genre fiction for reality and Huck’s generously indulging him to the point of no return. It’s also a kind of assualt on James Fenimore Cooper.