Provides a brief biography of the noted American writer who was born Samuel Clemens.

Born into poverty and the victim of vicious parental abuses, Dizzy received a trumpet one day and it changed his life forever. Dizzy follows Gillespie's journey from rural South Carolina to New York City--straight into the burgeoning jazz scene he soon immersed himself in.

Presents the life of one of the most famous circus owners of the nineteenth century, who partnered with P.T. Barnum to built a circus hippdrome, constructed the New York Aquarium, and traveled around the country on the first circus train.