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Genre/Form: | Fiction Biographies Publishers' advertisements Bookplates (Provenance) Inscriptions (Provenance) Ink-stamps (Provenance) Insertions (Provenance) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Roughing it. Hartford, Conn. : American Pub. Co. ; Chicago, Ill. : F.G. Gilman & Co. ; Toledo, Ohio : W.E. Bliss ; Cincinnati, Ohio : Nettleton & Co. ; Philadelphia, Pa. : D. Ashmead ; Boston, Mass. : George M. Smith & Co. ; San Francisco, Calif. : A. Roman & Co., 1872 (OCoLC)681322035 |
Named Person: | Mark Twain; Mark Twain |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Twain; American Publishing Company (Hartford, Conn.), |
OCLC Number: | 275036 |
Notes: | "Issued by subscription only, and not for sale in book stores." Issued with variant imprints. Cf. BAL. BAL notes that bindings other than standard black cloth were available and that p. 242 exists in 2 states. Publisher's advertisement on p. [592]. |
Description: | 591, [1] pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Responsibility: | by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) ; fully illustrated by eminent artists. |
Abstract:
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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