Roughing It - Twain, Mark 1835-1910 (University of California Press, 2011)
Chapter 50Chapter 51; Chapter 52; Chapter 53; Chapter 54; Chapter 55; Chapter 56; Chapter 57; Chapter 58; Chapter 59; Chapter 60; Chapter 61; Chapter 62; Chapter 63; Chapter 64; Chapter 65; Chapter 66; Chapter 67; Chapter 68; Chapter 69; Chapter 70; Chapter 71; Chapter 72; Chapter 73; Chapter 74; Chapter 75; Chapter 76; Chapter 77; Chapter 78; Chapter 79; Appendix; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Explanatory Notes; Supplements; References; Notes on the Text
Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous." Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, the text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wordi