Published in 1872, Roughing It is Mark Twain’s semi-autobiographical account of his journey westward from Missouri to Nevada, his days as a silver miner and journalist, and his visit to Hawaii. Written with characteristic comic exaggeration and genuine storytelling joy, it captures the chaos and excitement of the frontier West in the 1860s.
One of Twain’s most entertaining books, Roughing It reads as both a comic travelogue and a social document of the mining-era West. Download the free public-domain EPUB at Better Gutenberg and join Twain on his rollicking western adventure.