TY - BOOK AU - Twain,Mark TI - Roughing It AV - PS PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - West (U.S.) -- Description and travel KW - Hawaii -- Description and travel KW - Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- West (U.S.) KW - Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.) KW - West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughing_It; Release date is 2004-07-03; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Roughing It" by Mark Twain is a semi-autobiographical travel book written in 1870–71 and published in 1872. The work chronicles young Twain's adventures across the American West from 1861 to 1867, joining his brother on a stagecoach journey to Nevada Territory. From Salt Lake City visits to gold prospecting, real-estate speculation, and travels to Hawaii, Twain recounts the colorful experiences that shaped his career as a writer, showcasing the rough-hewn humor that would define his later masterpieces. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3177 ER -