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From the book:This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. Still, there is information in the volume; information concerning an interesting episode in the history of the Far West, about which no books have been written by persons who were on the ground in person, and saw the happenings of the time with their own eyes. I allude to the rise, growth and culmination of the silver-mining fever in Nevada -a curious episode, in some respects; the only one, of its peculiar kind, that has occurred in the land; and the only one, indeed, that is likely to occur in it. Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped: information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter. Sometimes it has seemed to me that I would give worlds if I could retain my facts; but it cannot be. The more I calk up the sources, and the tighter I get, the more I leak wisdom. Therefore, I can only claim indulgence at the hands of the reader, not justification.
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19th century, American Authors, Biography, Business, Christian Science, Description and travel, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Journeys, Law and politics, Mines and mineral resources, Travel, Voyages around the world, West (U.S.), Sexual ethics for teenagers, Sex instruction for youth, Sexual ethics, Controversial literature, Fiction, West (u.s.), description and travel, Twain, mark, 1835-1910, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Law, Hawaii, description and travel, Voyages and travels, American literature, Fiction, action & adventure, West (U.S.) -- Description and travel, Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- West (U.S.), Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.), West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century, Children's fictionPlaces
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1860-1880, 19th century, To 1950Showing 11 featured editions. View all 408 editions?
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Roughing It
April 1972, Univ of California Pr
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0520024788 9780520024786
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known as "Mark Twain," left Missouri in 1861 to work with his brother, the newly appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Once settled in Nevada, Clemens fell victim to gold fever and went to the Humboldt mines. When prospecting lost its attractions, Clemens found work as a reporter in Virginia City. In 1864, Clemens moved to California and worked as a reporter in San Francisco. It was there that he began to establish a nationwide reputation as a humorist. Roughing it (1891), first published in 1872, is his account of his adventures in the Far West. He devotes twenty chapters to the overland journey by boat and stagecoach to Carson City, including several chapters on the Mormons. Next come chronicles of mining life and local politics and crime in Virginia City and San Francisco and even a junket to the Hawaiian Islands. The book closes with his return to San Francisco and his introduction to the lecture circuit.
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