Roughing It

By Mark Twain

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Travel

Roughing It is Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical account of his years in the American West and Hawaii in the 1860s, published in 1872. Twain describes traveling by stagecoach to Nevada with his brother, prospecting for silver, working as a newspaper reporter in Virginia City and San Francisco, and visiting the Sandwich Islands. Filled with tall tales and exaggeration, the book captures the energy and humor of frontier life.