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Roughing It Title Roughing It Author/Creator Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens) Related item(s) PS1318.A1 1880 (Special Collections) Date Original 1872 Summary/Description Semi-autobiographical somewhat fictional account of Twain's real-life adventures in the 19th-century American West. He went west by stagecoach to serve as his brother Orion's personal secretary. Orion had secured the position of being Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Twain recounts his experiences as a frontier newspaper reporter, a prospector, and a writer. Subject Lake Tahoe (Calif. and Nev.) Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) Location California Nevada Hawaii Source http://tinyurl.com/85pca Original Publisher American Publishing Company, Hartford, Conn. Electronic Publisher Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Format text Date Digital 2003 Language eng

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