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Roughing It V.2 (The Works Of Mark Twain - 25 Volumes - Author's National Edition)
Roughing It V2 - The Works Of Mark Twain - 25 Volumes - Author's National Edition Author:Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Clemens Samuel L. In his youth Mark Twain drifted through the West. He worked as a civil servant, gold prospector, reporter, lecturer. ROUGHING IT is Twain's record--fact and impression--of those early years. Twain tried his luck at everything. He disputed with vigilantes; crossed Slade the Terrible, whose equally terrible wife shot not from the hip but from the... more » petticoat; met people famous and obscure, from Brigham Young, the ambitious Mormon leader, to Hank Erickson, a farmer who sought advice on turnips from Horace Greeley and fulminated against him because he could not decipher the answer.« less