THIS book is merely a personal narrative, mad not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science.Still, there is information in the volume; information concerning an interesting episode in the history of the Far West, about which no books have been written by persons who were on the ground in person and saw the happenings of the time with their own eyes. I allude to the rise, growth,and culmination of the silver-mining fever in Nevada--a curious episode, in some respects; the only one, of its peculiar kind, that has occurred in the land; and the only one, indeed, that is likely to occur in it.

Though known throughout the world for his fictional novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn．Mark Twain was also a skilled chronicler of his own life and experiences．In his youth，Twain traveled extensively throughout the untamed American West with his brother，working his way from town to town in a variety of jobs，including gold prospector，reporter，and lecturer．

ROUGHING IT is Twain’s personal recollection of his wanderlust years．It is a wildly humorous adventure yarn that combines hard facts with a-healthy doge of the author’s tinique perspective，one that helped define the course of American literature．

Pocket Books’Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enriched for the contemporary reader．This edition of ROUGHING IT has been prepared by Professor Henry B．Wonham of the University of Oregon．It includes his introduction，notes，selection of critical excerpts，and suggestions for the futur reading as well as a unique：visual essay of period illustrations and photographs．

Prefatory

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII

Chapter XVIII

Chapter XIX

Chapter XX

Chapter XXI

Chapter XXII

Chapter XXIII

Chapter XXIV

Chapter XXV

Chapter XXVI

Chapter XXVII

Chapter XXVIII

Chapter XXIX

Chapter XXX

Chapter XXXI

Chapter XXXII

Chapter XXXIII

Chapter XXXIV

Chapter XXXV

Chapter XXXVI

Chapter XXXVII

Chapter XXXVIII

Chapter XXXIX

Chapter XL

Chapter XLI

Chapter XLII

Chapter XLIII

Chapter XLIV

Chapter XLV

Chapter XLVI

Chapter XLVII

Chapter XLVIII

Chapter XLIX

Chapter L

Chapter LI

Chapter LII

Chapter LIII

Chapter LIV

Chapter LV

Chapter LVI

Chapter LVII

Chapter LVIII

Chapter LIX

Chapter LX

Chapter LXI

Chapter LXII

Chapter LXIII

Chapter LXIV

Chapter LXV

Chapter LXVI

Chapter LXVII

Chapter LXVIII

Chapter LXIX

Chapter LXX

Chapter LXXI

Chapter LXXII

Chapter LXXIII

Chapter LXXIV

Chapter LXXV

Chapter LXXVI

Chapter LXXVII

Chapter LXXVIII

Chapter LXXIX

Appendix A Brief Sketch of Mormon History

Appendix B The Mountain Meadows Massacre

Appendix C Concerning a Frightful Assassination that was Never Consummated