Roughing It

Mark Twain's uproarious account of his years in the American West, from stagecoach and silver mine to newspaper desk.

At a glance Tall tales, hard luck, and frontier characters, delivered with his incomparable comic… Setting out west as a young man in search of adventure and fortune, Mark Twain found… What it's about Roughing It is Twain's semi-autobiographical account of his journey to… Fact and exuberant exaggeration blend into a portrait of a raw and restless region.

Roughing It is Twain's semi-autobiographical account of his journey to and through the Far West, taking in the overland stagecoach, the mining camps of Nevada, the silver rush, frontier journalism, and a memorable…

About this book Mark Twain turns his years in the American West into a sprawling comic travel memoir full of prospectors, stagecoaches, frontier journalism, and deadpan observation.