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An edition of Roughing It (1872)

Roughing It

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Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous," Roughing It sold 75,000 copies within a year. The book still evokes a vivid portrait of frontier life and character, in part because of its distinctively western humor: the mock trial known as the Great Landslide Case; Buck Fanshaw's funeral; Mark Twain's adventures with the Genuine Mexican Plug; Jim Blaine's rambling story of his grandfather's old rain; Bemis's account of hunting the buffalo; and Dick Baker's story about his sagacious cat, Tom Quartz.

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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 fiction
People
Joan of Arc, Saint (1412-1431), Mark Twain (1835-1910), Mark, 1835-1910 Twain
Places
California, Hawaii, Mississippi River, West (U.S.)
Times
1860-1880, 19th century, To 1950

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Roughing It
2014, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
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Roughing It
2013-12-27, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Roughing It
2007-07-24, LibriVox
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Roughing It
2004, Fictionwise, Inc.
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Roughing It
2000, University of California Press
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Roughing it (Classics of the Old West)
1982-01-01, Time-Life Books
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Roughing It
April 1972, Univ of California Pr
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Roughing it
1913, Harper & brothers
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1913, Harper and Brothers
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Roughing it
1886, American publishing company
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Roughing it
1872, American publishing company, F. G. Gilman & co,, etc., etc.
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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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