Dec 17, 2009

Roughing It | Roughing It

At a glance:

Author: Mark Twain
First Published: 1872
Type of Work: Fictionalized autobiography
Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Travel writing, Adventure
Subjects: Wives, Nineteenth century, Native Americans or American Indians, Mines, miners, or mining, Frontier or pioneer life, Vigilantes, Mormons, Humorists, Wilderness

Critical Evaluation:

Roughing It is a partly fictional account of Mark Twain’s travel to the Nevada Territory and to California, his varied life there, colorful personalities encountered, and his visit to the Hawaiian Islands (then called the Sandwich Islands). Interspersed throughout are factual and semifactual journalistic reports, as well as tall tales. The book covers Mark Twain’s stagecoach trip with his brother Orion Clemens, the newly appointed secretary of the Nevada Territory, from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Carson City, Nevada (July to August, 1861);...

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Roughing It | Roughing It

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