Collection: Roughing It

Produced by David Widger ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain 1880 Part 8. CHAPTER LXXI. At four o’clock in the afternoon we were winding down a mountain of dreary and desolate lava to the sea, and closing our pleasant land journey. This lava is the accumulation of ages; one torrent of fire after another has rolled

Produced by David Widger ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain 1880 Part 7. CHAPTER LXI. One of my comrades there–another of those victims of eighteen years of unrequited toil and blighted hopes–was one of the gentlest spirits that ever bore its patient cross in a weary exile: grave and simple Dick Baker, pocket-miner of Dead-House Gulch.–He

Produced by David Widger ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain 1880 Part 6. CHAPTER LI. Vice flourished luxuriantly during the hey-day of our “flush times.” The saloons were overburdened with custom; so were the police courts, the gambling dens, the brothels and the jails–unfailing signs of high prosperity in a mining region–in any region for that

Produced by David Widger ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain 1880 Part 5. CHAPTER XLI. Captain Nye was very ill indeed, with spasmodic rheumatism. But the old gentleman was himself–which is to say, he was kind-hearted and agreeable when comfortable, but a singularly violent wild-cat when things did not go well. He would be smiling along

Produced by David Widger ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain 1880 Part 4. CHAPTER XXXI. There were two men in the company who caused me particular discomfort. One was a little Swede, about twenty-five years old, who knew only one song, and he was forever singing it. By day we were all crowded into one small,

Produced by David Widger ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain 1880 Part 3. CHAPTER XXI. We were approaching the end of our long journey. It was the morning of the twentieth day. At noon we would reach Carson City, the capital of Nevada Territory. We were not glad, but sorry. It had been a fine pleasure

Produced by David Widger ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain 1880 Part 2. CHAPTER XI. And sure enough, two or three years afterward, we did hear him again. News came to the Pacific coast that the Vigilance Committee in Montana (whither Slade had removed from Rocky Ridge) had hanged him. I find an account of the

Produced by David Widger ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain 1880 Part 1. TO CALVIN H. HIGBIE, Of California, an Honest Man, a Genial Comrade, and a Steadfast Friend. THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED By the Author, In Memory of the Curious Time When We Two WERE MILLIONAIRES FOR TEN DAYS. ROUGHING IT BY MARK TWAIN. (SAMUEL