Roughing It
by Mark Twain
Roughing It (1872) was one of Twain's celebrated, autobiographical novels, embellishments of his many adventures silver mining, "vagabondizing," including an overview of Mormonism, set in the Far West, particularly in the wilds of Nevada, all the way to the Hawaiian Islands. Many of its stories have been anthologized, such as Lost in the Snow, and his essay, Roughing It.
To Calvin H. Higbie, of California, An Honest Man, a Genial Comrade, and a Steadfast Friend, THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED By the Author, In Memory of the Curious Time When We Two WERE MILLIONAIRES FOR TEN DAYS
Table of Contents
Chapter I - My Brother Appointed Secretary of Nevada
Chapter II - Arrive at St. Joseph
Chapter III - The Thoroughbrace is Broke
Chapter IV - Making Our Bed - Assaults by the Unabridged
Chapter V - New Acquaintances - The Cayotea
Chapter VI - The Division Superintendent
Chapter VII - Overland City - Crossing the Platte
Chapter VIII - The Pony Express - Fifty Miles Without Stopping
Chapter IX - Among the Indians - An Unfair Advantage
Chapter X - History of Slade - A Proposed Fist-fight
Chapter XI - Slade in Montana - "On a Spree"
Chapter XII - A Mormon Emigrant Train - The Heart of the Rocky Mountains
Chapter XIII - Mormons and Gentiles - Exhilarting Drink
Chapter XIV - Mormon Contractors - How Mr. Stree Astonished Them
Chapter XV - A Gentile Den - Polygamy Discussed
Chapter XVI - The Mormon Bible - Proofs of its Divinity
Chapter XVII - Three Sides to all Questions - Everything "A Quarter"
Chapter XVIII - Alkali Desert - Romance of Crossing Dispelled
Chapter XIX - The Digger Indians Compared with the Bushmen of Africa
Chapter XX - The Great American Desert - Forty Miles of Bones
Chapter XXI - Alkali Dust - Desolation and Contemplation
Chapter XXII - The Son of a Nabob - Start for Lake Tahoe
Chapter XXIII - A Happy Life - Lake Tahoe and Its Mood
Chapter XXIV - Resolve to Buy a Horse - Horsemanship in Carson
Chapter XXV - The Mormons in Nevada - How to Persuade a Loan from Them
Chapter XXVI - The Silver Fever - State of the Market
Chapter XXVII - Our Manner of Going - Incidents of the Trip
Chapter XXVIII - Arrive at the Mountains - Building Our Cabin
Chapter XXIX - Out Prospecting - A Silver Mine at Last
Chapter XXX - Disinterested Friends - How "Feet" Were Sold
Chapter XXXI - The Guests at "Honey Lake Smith's"
Chapter XXXII - Desperate Situation - Attempts to Make a Fire
Chapter XXXIII - Return of Consciousness - Ridiculous Developments
Chapter XXXIV - About Carson - General Buncombe
Chapter XXXV - A New Travelling Companion - All Full and No Accommodations
Chapter XXXVI - A Quartz Mill - Amalgamation
Chapter XXXVII - The Whiteman Cement Mine - Story of Its Discovery
Chapter XXXVIII - Mono Lake - Shampooing Made Easy
Chapter XXXIX - Visit to the Islands in Lake Mono
Chapter XL - The "Wide West" Mine - It is "Interviewed" by Higbie
Chapter XLI - A Rheumatic Patient - Day Dreams
Chapter XLII - What to Do Next? - Obstacles I Had Met With
Chapter XLIII - My Friend Boggs - The School Report
Chapter XLIV - Flush Times - Plenty of Stock
Chapter XLV - Flush Times Continue - Sanitary Commission Fund
Chapter XLVI - The Nabobs of Those Days - John Smith as a Traveler
Chapter XLVII - Buck Fanshaw's Death - The Cause Thereof
Chapter XLVIII - The First Twenty-Six Graves in Nevada
Chapter XLIX - Fatal Shooting Affray - Robbery and Desperate Affray
Chapter L - Captain Ned Blakely - Bill Nookes Receives Desired Information
Chapter LI - The Weekly Occidental - A Ready Editor
Chapter LII - Freights to California - Silver Bricks
Chapter LIII - Jim Blaine and His Grandfather's Ram - Filkin's Mistake
Chapter LIV - Chinese in Virginia City - Washing Bills
Chapter LV - Tired of Virginia City - An Old Schoolmate
Chapter LVI - Off for San Francisco - Western and Eastern Landscapes
Chapter LVII - California - Novelty of Seeing a Woman
Chapter LVIII - Life in San Francisco - Worthless Stocks
Chapter LIX - Poor Again - Slinking as a Business
Chapter LX - An Old Friend - An Educated Miner
Chapter LXI - Dick Baker and His Cat - Tom Quartz's Peculiarities
Chapter LXII - Bound for the Sandwich Islands - The Three Captains
Chapter LXIII - Arrival at the Islands - Honolulu
Chapter LXIV - An Excursion - Captain Phillips and His Turn-Out
Chapter LXV - Interesting Mementoes and Relics - An Old Legend of a Frightful Leap
Chapter LXVI - A Saturday Afternoon - Sandwich Island Girls on a Frolic
Chapter LXVII - The Legislature of the Island - What Its President Has Seen
Chapter LXVIII - A Royal Funeral - Order of Procession
Chapter LXIX - "Once more upon the Waters," - A Noisy Passenger
Chapter LXX - A Droll Character - Mrs. Beazely and Her Son
Chapter LXXI - Kealakekau Bay - Death of Captain Cook
Chapter LXXII - Young Kanakas in New England - A Temple Built by Ghosts
Chapter LXXIII - Native Canoes - Surf Bathing
Chapter LXXIV - Visit to the Volcano - The Crater
Chapter LXXV - The North Lake - Fountains of Fire
Chapter LXXVI - A Reminiscence - Another Horse Story
Chapter LXXVII - A Curious Character
Chapter LXXVIII - Return to San Francisco - Ship Amusements
Chapter LXXIX - Highwaymen - A Predicament
Appendix A - Brief Sketch of Mormon History B
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