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Roughing it
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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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Roughing It
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Table of Contents
PAQE 1 The MnfERs' Dream rFrti Pagb,) J^e Page Froktispiece 2 Envious Contemplations
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3 Innocent Dreams
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4 Light Traveling Order
Page 23
5 The " Allen "
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6 iNDtfCEMBNTS to PURCHASE
Page 24
7 The Facetious Driver
Page 25
8 Pleasing News
Page 26
9 The Sphynx
Page 27
10 Meditation
Page 32
11 On Business
Page 33
12 Author as Gulliver
Page 33
13 A Tough Statement
Page 35
14 Third Trip of the Unabridobd
Page 38
15 A Powerful Glass
Page 41
16 An Heirloom
Page 42
17 Our Landlord
Page 42
18 Dignified Exile
Page 43
19 Drinking Slumgullion
Page 44
20 A Joke without Cream
Page 45
21 Pullman Car Dininq-Saloon
Page 47
22 Our Morning Ride
Page 49
23 Prairie Dogs
Page 50
24 A Cayote
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25 Showing Respect to Relatives
Page 52
26 The Conductor
Page 55
27 Teaching a Sl'bordinate
Page 57
28 Jack and the Elderly Pilgrim
Page 58
29 Crossing the Platte
Page 61
30 I Began to Pray
Page 62
31 A New Departure
Page 63
32 Suspended Operations
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as A Wonderful Lie
Page 68
34 Tail-piece
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CHAPTER I.
My Brother appointed Secretary of Nevada I Envy His Prospective Adventures Am Appointed Private Secretary Under Him My Contentment Complete Packed in One Hour Dreams and Visions On the Missouri River A Bully Boat 19 CHAPTER n Arrive at St Joseph Only Twenty-five Pounds Baggage Allowed Farewell to Kid <3Hoves and Dress Coats Armed to the Teeth The "Allen" A Cheerful Weapon Persuaded to Buy a Mule Schedule of Luxuries We Leave the " States " " Our Coach " Mails for the Indians^Between a Wink and an Earthquake A Modern Sphyhx and How She Entertained Us A Sociable Heifer 22 CHAPTER HI " The Thoroughbrace is Broke " Mails Delivered Properly Sleeping Under Difficulties A Jackass Rabbit Meditating, and on Business A Modern Gulliver Sage-brush Overcoats as an Article of Diet Sad Fate of a Camel Warning to Experimenters 29 CHAPTER IV Making Our Bed Assaults by the Unabridged At a Station Our Driver a Great and Shining Dignitary Strange Place for a Front- yard Accommodations Double Portraits An Heirloom Our Worthy Landlord " Fixings and Things " An Exile Slumgul- lion A Well Furnished Table The Landlord Astonished Table Etiquette Wild Mexican Mules Stage-coaching and Railroading 37 CHAPTER V New Acquaintances ^The Cayote A Dog's Experiences A Disgusted Dog The Relatives of the Cayote Meals Taken Away from Home 4S CHAPTER VI The Division Superintendent The Conductor The Driver One Hun- dred and Fifty Miles' Drive Without Sleep Teaching a Subor- dinate Our Old Friend Jack and a Pilgrim Ben Holliday Com- pared to Moses 54 CHAPTER VII Overland City Crossing the Platte Bemis's Buffalo Hunt Assault "by a Buffalo Bemis's Horse Goes Crazy An Impromptu Circus A New Departure Bemis Finds Refuge in a Tree Escapes Finally by a Wonderful Method 60 CHAPTER VIII The Pony Express-^Fifty Miles Without Stopping " Here he Comes " Alkali Water^ Riding an Avalanche Indian Massacre TO XU CHAPTER IX PAQB Among the Indians An Unfair Advantage I^aying on our Arms A Midnight Murder Wrath of Outlaws A Dangerous, yet Valuable Citizen
Page 75
CHAPTER X.
History of Slade A Proposed Fist-fight Encounter with Jules Paradise of Outlaws Slade as Superintendent As Executioner A Doomed Whisky Seller A Prisoner A Wife's Bravery An Ancient Enemy Captured Enjoying a Luxury Hob-nobbing with Slade Too Polite A Happy Escape
Page 80
CHAPTER XI.
Slade in Montana "On a Spree" In Court Attack on a Judge Arrest by the Vigilantes Turn out of the Miners Execution of Slade Lamentations of His Wife Was Slade a Coward ?
Page 90
CHAPTER XII.
A Mormon Emigrant Train The Heart of the Rocky Mountains Pure Saleratus A Natural Ice-House An Entire Inhabitant In Sight of " Eternal Snow " The South Pass The Parting Streams An Unreliable Letter Carrier Meeting of Old Friends A Spoiled Watermelon Down the Mountain A Scene of Desolation Lost in the Dark Unnecessary Advice U S Troops and Indians Sub- lime Spectacle Another Delusion Dispelled Among the Angels
Page 97
CHAPTER XIII.
Mormons and Gentiles Exhilarating Drink, and its EfiFect on Bemis Salt Lake City A Great Contrast A Mormon Vagrant Talk with a Saint A Visit to the " King " A Happy Simile
Page 108
CHAPTER XIV.
Mormon Contractors How Mr Street Astonished Them The Case Before Brigham Young, and How he' Disposed of it Polygamy Viewed from a New Position
Page 114
CHAPTER XV.
A Gentile Den Polygamy Discussed Favorite Wife and D 4 Hennery for Retired Wives Children Need Marking Cost of a Gift to No 6 A Penny-whistle Gift and its Effects Fathering the Foundlings It Resembled Him The Family Bedstead
Page 119
CHAPTER XVI.
' The Mormon Bible Proofs of its Divinity Plagiarism of its Authors Story of Nephi Wonderful Battle Kilkenny Cats Outdone
Page 127
CHAPTER XVII.
Three Sides to all Questions Everything " A Quarter " Shriveled Up Emigrants and White Shirts at a Discount " Forty -Niners " A^ove Par Real Happiness
Page 136
CHAPTER.
XVni Alkali Desert Romance of Crossing Dispelled Alkali Dust Effect on the Mules Universal Thanksgiving t4S XUl CHAPTER XIX The Digger Indians Compared with the Bushmen of Africa Food, Life and Characteristics Cowardly Attack on a Stage Coach A Brave Driver The Noble Red Man
Page 146
CHAPTER XX.
The Great American Desert Forty Miles on Bones Lakes Without Outlets Greely's Remarkable Ride Hank Monk, the Renowned Driver Fatal Effects of " Corking " a Story Bald-Headed Anec- dote
Page 150
CHAPTER XXI.
Alkali Dust Desolation and Contemplation Carson City Our Journey Ended We are Introduced to Several Citizens A Strange Rebuke A Washoe Zephyr at Play Its Office Houre Governor's Palace Government Offices Our French Landlady Bridget O'Flannigan Shadow Secrets Cause for a Disturbance at Once The Irish Bri- gade Mrs O'Flannigan's Boarders The Surveying Expedition Escape of the Tarantulas 15Y CHAPTER XXIL The Son of a Nabob Start for Lake Tahoe Splendor of the Views Trip on the Lake Camping Out Reinvigorating Climate Clear- ing a Tract of Land Securing a Title Outhouse and Fences
Page 168
CHAPTER.
XXIIL A Happy Life Lake Tahoe and its Moods Transparency of the Waters A Catastrophe Fire ! Fire ! A Magnificent Spectacle Homeless Again We take to the Lake A Storm Return to Carson
Page 173
CHAPTER XXIV.
Resolve to Buy a Horse Horsemanship in Carson A Temptation Advice Given Me Freely I Buy the Mexican Plug My First Ride A Good Bucker I Loan the Plug Experience of Borrowers At- tempts to Sell Expense of the Experiment A Stranger Taken In
Page 178
CHAPTER XXV.
The Mormons in Nevada How to Persuade a Loan from Them Early History of the Territory Silver Mines Discovered The New Terri- torial G?)vernment A Foreign One and a Poor One Its Funny Struggles for Existence No Credit, no Cash Old Abe Currey Sus- tains it and its Officers Instructions and Vouchers An Indian's Endorsement Toll-Gates
Page 185
CHAPTER XXVI.
The Silver Fever State of the Market Silver Bricks Tales Told- Offforthe Humboldt Mines
Page 193
CHAPTER.
XXVIL Our manner of going Incidents of the Trip A Warm but Too Familiar a Bedfellow Mr Ballou Objects Sunshine amid Clouds Safely Arrived
Page 198
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CHAPTER XXVIII Arrive at the Mountains Building Our Cabin My First Prospecting Tour My First GoIdMine Pocliets Filled With Treasures Filtering the News to My Companions The Bubble Pricked All Not Gold That Glitters
Page 203
CHAPTER XXIX.
Out Prospecting A Silver Mine At Last Making a Fortune With Sledge and Drill A Hard Road to Travel We Own in Claims ^A Rocky Country
Page 211
CHAPTER XXX.
Disinterested Friends How " Feet " Were Sold We Quit Tunnelling A Trip to Esmeralda My Companions An Indian Prophesy ^A Flood Our Quarters During It
Page 216
CHAPTER XXXI.
The Guests at "Honey Lake Smith's" "Bull v Old Arkansas" "Our Land- lord "Determined to Fight The Land"lord's Wife The Bully Con- quered by Her Another Start Crossing the Carson A Narrow Escape Following Our Own Track A New Guide Lost in the Snow
Page 221
CHAPTER XXXII.
Desperate Situation Attempts to Make a Fire Our Horses leave us We Find Matches One, Two, Three and the Last No Fire Death Seems Inevitable We Mourn Over Our Evil Lives Discarded Vices We For- give Each Other ^An Affectionate Farewell The Sleep of Oblivion
Page 232
CHAPTER.
XXXm Return of Consciousness Ridiculous Developments A Station House ^Bit- ter Feelings Fruits of Repentance Resurrected Vices
Page 238
CHAPTER XXXIV.
About Carson General Buncombe Hyde vs Morgan How Hyde Lost His Ranch The Great Landslide Case The Trial General Buncombe in Court A Wonderful Decision A Serious Afterthought
Page 241
CHAPTER XXXV.
A New Travelling Companion All Full and No Accommodations How Cap- tain Nye found Room and Caused Our Leaving to be Lamented The Uses of Tunnelling A Notable Example We Go into the " Claim " Bus- iness and Fail ^At the Bottom 2*8 CHAPTER XXXVL 4 A Quartz Mill Amalgamation " Screening Tailings " First Quartz Mill in Nevada ^Fire Assay ^A Smart Assay er I stake for an advance
Page 262
CHAPTER XXXVII.
The Whiteman Cement Mine Story of its Discovery A Secret Expedition A Nocturnal Adventure ^A Distressing Position ^A Failure and a Week's Holiday 26f CHAPTER XXXVIII Mono Lake Shampooing Made Easy Thoughtless Act of Our Dog and the Results Lye Water Curiosities of the Lake Free Hotel Some Funny Incidents a Little Overdrawn
Page 266
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CHAPTER XXXIX Visit to the Islands in Lake Mono ^Ashes and Desolation Life Amid Death Our Boat Adrift A Jump For Life A Storm On the Lake A Mass of ^oap Suds Geological Curiosities A "Week On the Sierras A Narrow Escape From a Funny Explosion " Stove Heap Gone "
Page 270
CHAPTER XL.
The "Wide "West" Mine It is " Interviewed " by Higbie A Blind Lead- Worth a Million We are Rich At Last Plans for the Future 27Y CHAPTER XLL A Rheumatic Patient Day Dreams An Unfortunate Stumble I Leave Sud- denly Another Patient Higbie in the Cabin Our Balloon Bursted Worth Nothing Regrets and Explanations Our Third Partner
Page 285
CHAPTER.
XLIL What to do Next ? Obstacles I Had Met With "Jack of All Trades" Mining Again Target Shooting I Turn City Editor I Succeed Finely
Page 292
CHAPTER.
XLIIL My Friend Boggs ^The School Report Boggs Pays Me An Old Debt "Virgin- ia City
Page 299
CHAPTER XLIV.
Flush Times Plenty of Stock Editorial Puffing Stocks Given Me Salting Mines ^A Tragedian In a New Role
Page 306
CHAPTER XLV.
Flush Times Continue Sanitary Commission Fund ^Wild Enthusiasm of the People Would not wait to Contribute The Sanitary Flour Sack It is Carried to Gold Hill and Dayton Final Reception in "Virginia Results of the Sale A Grand Total
Page 313
CHAPTER.
XLVL The Nabobs of Those Days John Smith as a Traveler Sudden Wealth -A Sixty-Thousand-Dollar Horse A Smart Telegraph Operator ^A Nabob in New York City Charters an Omnibus " Walk in, It's All Free " "You Can't Pay a Cent " "Hold On, Driver, I Weaken " Sociability of New Yorkers" 820 CHAPTER XL"VII Buck Fanshaw's Death The Cause Thereof Preparations for His Burial Scotty Briggs the Committee Man He Visits the Minister Scotty Cau't Play 'His Hand The Minister Gets Mixed Both Begin to See " All Down Again But Nine"^Buck Fanshaw as a Citizen How To "Shook Your Mother "The Funeral Scotty Briggs as a Sunday School Teacher
Page 329
CHAPTER.
XLVIIL The First Twenty-Six Graves in Nevada The Prominent Men of the County The Man Who Had Killed His Dozen Trial by Jury Specimen Jurors A Private Grave Yard The Desperadoes Who They Killed Waking up the Weary Passenger Satisfaction Without Fighting
Page 339
xvi.
CHAPTER XLIX, Fatal Shooting Affraj" Robbery and Desperate Aflray ^A Specimen City Offi- cial A Marked Man A Street Fight Punishment of Crime 847 CHAPTER L Captain Ned Blakely Bill Nookes Receives Desired Information Killing of Blakely's Mate ^A Walking Battery Blakely Secures Nookes Hang First and Be Tried Afterwards Captain Blakely as a Chaplain The First Chapter of Genesis Read at a Hanging Nookes Hung Blakely'a Regrets 862 CHAPTER LI The Weekly Occidental A Ready Editor A Novel A Concentration of Tal- ent The Heroes and the Herqines The Dissolute Author Engaged Ex- traordinary Havoc With the Novel A Highly Romantic Chapter The Lovers Separated Jonah Out-done A Lost Poem The Aged Pilot Man Storm On the Erie Canal Dollinger the Pilot Man Terrific Gale Danger Increases A Crisis A rived -Saved as if by a Miracle
Page 360
CHAPTER LII.
Freights to California Silver Bricks Under Ground Mines Timber Supports ^A Visit to the Mines The Caved Mines Total of Shipments in 1863
Page 376
CHAPTER.
Lin Jim Blaine and his Grandfather's Ram Filkin's Mistake Old Miss Wagner and her Glass Eye Jacobs, the Coffin Dealer Waiting for a Customer His Bai^ain With Old Robbins Robbins Sues for Damage and Collects A New Use for Missionaries The Effect His Uncle Lem and the Use Providence Made of Him Sad Fate of Wheeler Devotion of His Wife A Model Monument What About the Ram? 882 CHAPTER LIV Chinese in Virginia City Washing Bills Habit of Imitation Chinese Immi- grationA Visit to Chinatown Messrs Ah Sing, Hong Wo, See Yup, &c 891 CHAPTER LV Kred of Virginia City ^An Old Schoolmate ^A Two Years' Loan Acting as an Editor Almost Receive an Offer An Accident Three Drunken Anecdotes Last Look at Mt Davidson A Beautiful Incident 898 CHAPTER LVr Off for San Francisco Western and Eastern Landscapes The Hottest place on Earth Summer and Winter
Page 408
CHAPTER.
LVIL California ^Novelty of Seeing a Woman "Well if it ain't a Child!" One Hundred and Fifty Dollars for a Kiss Waiting for a turn
Page 414
CHAPTER.
LVm Life in San Francisco Worthless Stocks My First Earthquake Reporto- rial Instincts Effects of the Shocks Incidents and Curiosities Sabbath Breakers The Lodger and the Chambermaid A Sensible Fashion to Follow Effects of the Earthquake on the Ministers
Page 419
xvii.
CHAPTER LIX Poor Again Slinking as a Business A Model Collector Misery loves Com- pany Comparing Notes for Comfort A Streak of Luck ^Finding a Dime Wealthy by Comparison Two Sumptuous Dinners
Page 428
CHAPTER LX.
An Old Friend ^An Educated Miner ^Pocket Mining ^Freaks of Fortune
Page 435
CHAPTER.
LXL Dick Baker and his Cat ^Tom Quartz's Peculiarities On an Excursion Ap- pearance On His Return A Prejudiced Cat ^Empty Pockets and a Ro- ving Life 43 CHAPTER LXn Bound for the Sandwich Islands The Three Captains The Old Admiral His Daily Habits His Well Fought Fields An Unexpected Opponent The Admiral Overpowered ^The Victor Declared a Hero
Page 448
CHAPTER.
LXin Arrival at the Islands Honolulu What I Saw There Dress and Habits of the Inhabitants The Animal Kingdom Fruits and Delightfur Effects
Page 454
CHAPTER LXIV.
An Excursion Captain Phillips and his Tum-Out A Horseback Ride A Vicious Animal ^Nature and Art Interesting Ruins All Praise to the Missionaries
Page 459
CHAPTER LXV.
Interesting Mementoes and Relics An Old Legend of a Frightful Leap ^An Appreciative Horse Horse Jockeys and Their Brothers A New Trick A Hay Merchant Good Country for Horse Lovers 46S CHAPTER LXVL A Saturday Afternoon Sandwich Island Girls on a Frolic The Poi Merchant Grand Gala Day A Native Dance Church Membership Cats and Officials ^An Overwhelming Discovery
Page 471
CHAPTER.
LXVIL The Legislature of the Island ^What Its President Has Seen Praying for an Enemy Women's Rights Romantic Fashions Worship of the Shark Desire for Dress Full Dress Not Paris Style Playing Empire Officials and Foreign Ambassadors Overwhelming Magnificence
Page 480
CHAPTER.
LXVIIL jA Royal Funeral Order of Procession Pomp and Ceremony A Striking Contrast A Sick Monarch Human Sacrifices at His Death Burial Orgies 400 CHAPTER LXIX ** Once more upon the Waters." ^A Noisy Passenger Several Silent Ones A Moohlight Scene Fruits and Plantations 4M 2t xviii , CHAPTER LXX A Droll Character Mrs Beazely and Her Son Meditations on Turnips A Letter from Horace Greeley An Indignant Rejoinder The Letter Translated but too Late
Page 602
CHAPTER.
LXXI Kealakekua Bay Death of Captain Cook ^His Monument Its Cdnstruction On Board the Schooner 61S CHAPTER LXXn Young Kanakas in New England A Temple Built by Ghosts Female Bath- ' ers tl Stood Guard Women and Whiskey A Fight for Religion Arri- val of Missionaries
Page 617
CHAPTER.
LXXIII Native Canoes Surf Bathing A Sanctuary How Built ^The Queen's Rock Curiosities Petrified Lava
Page 624
CHAPTER.
LXXIV Tifiit to the Volcano ^The Crater Pillar of Fire Magnificent Spectacle A Lake of Fire
Page 632
CHAPTER.
LXXV The North Lake Fountains of Fire Streams of Burning Lava Tidal Waves
Page 638
CHAPTER.
LXXVL A Reminiscence Another Horse Story My Ride with the Retired Milk Horse A Picnicing Excursion Dead Volcano of Holeakala Compar- ison with Vesuvius An Inside View .'
Page 644
CHAPTER.
LXXVIL A Curious Character A Series of Stories Sad Fate of a Liar Evidence of Insanity
Page 661
CHAPTER.
LXXVIIL Return to San Francisco Ship Amusements Preparing for Lecturing ^Val- uable Assistance Secured My First Attempt The Audience Carried "All's Well that Ends Well." 668 CHAPTER LXXIX Highwaymen A Predicament A Huge Joke Farewell to California ^At Home Again Great Changes Moral
Page 664
APPENDIX.
A, ^Bricf Sketch of Mormon History 67t B The Mountain Meadows Massacre
Page 676
C Concerning a Frightful Assassination that was never Consummated
Page 680
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