num_pages: 368
description: These memoirs recount the writer and humorist's scuffling years, during which he beat a path across the American West and all the way to Hawaii. His spirited narrative relates a series of triumphs and misadventures and profiles a many-faceted succession of personalities and locales: the stage drivers and desperadoes of the Great Plains; Mormon society; the mines and miners of Nevada; the climate and characteristics of San Francisco; and the amusing and unexpected traits of Sandwich Island civilization. Twain finds drollery in every corner of his travels, but the sincerity and humanity of his reminiscences provide a realistic vision of now-vanished worlds.
language: English
title: Roughing It
titlecomplete: Roughing It
characters: Oliphant, Mr. Jules, Mr. W., Mrs. Beazely, John James Godfrey, Mormondom, Joe McGee, Judge Cradlebaugh, Jules Beni, Alexander Davis, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens, King Liholiho, Winthrop L. Willis, Marshall Rodgers, Philip Lynch, Buncombe, Mrs. C. V. Waite, Dr. Owens, J. Smith, Buck Fanshaw, Miss Wagner, Kalaimoku, Ollendorff, William Kanui, Dollinger, Martin Harris, Mr. Higbie, Ned Blakely, Kaahumanu, Mrs. O'Flannigan, Mr. Van Dorn, Mr. Street, Uncle Lem, Scotty Briggs, Miss Jacops, Col. Jack, George Gumbert, Kamehameha I, John H. Morgan, Mr. Dimsdale, Mr. Ballou, Roop, Young Claggett <sic>, Mr. Ben Holliday, Sile Hawkins, Mr. Blucher, Mr. Arkansas, Bill Noakes, Mr. Curry, Markiss, SIMON ERICKSON, J. A. Slade, Tom Reeder, John B. Winters
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Adventure, 19th Century, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Travel, Humor
ratings_count: 9267
places: Overland City, Coriantumr, Mount Davidson
publisher: Dover