Roughing It

by Mark Twain


Table of Contents

Prefatory

Chapter I - My Brother Appointed Secretary of Nevada

Chapter II - Arrive at St. Joseph

Chapter III - The Thoroughbrace is Broke

Chapter IV - Making Our Bed - Assaults by the Unabridged

Chapter V - New Acquaintances - The Cayotea

Chapter VI - The Division Superintendent

Chapter VII - Overland City - Crossing the Platte

Chapter VIII - The Pony Express - Fifty Miles Without Stopping

Chapter IX - Among the Indians - An Unfair Advantage

Chapter X - History of Slade - A Proposed Fist-fight

Chapter XI - Slade in Montana - "On a Spree"

Chapter XII - A Mormon Emigrant Train - The Heart of the Rocky Mountains

Chapter XIII - Mormons and Gentiles - Exhilarting Drink

Chapter XIV - Mormon Contractors - How Mr. Stree Astonished Them

Chapter XV - A Gentile Den - Polygamy Discussed

Chapter XVI - The Mormon Bible - Proofs of its Divinity

Chapter XVII - Three Sides to all Questions - Everything "A Quarter"

Chapter XVIII - Alkali Desert - Romance of Crossing Dispelled

Chapter XIX - The Digger Indians Compared with the Bushmen of Africa

Chapter XX - The Great American Desert - Forty Miles of Bones

Chapter XXI - Alkali Dust - Desolation and Contemplation

Chapter XXII - The Son of a Nabob - Start for Lake Tahoe

Chapter XXIII - A Happy Life - Lake Tahoe and Its Mood

Chapter XXIV - Resolve to Buy a Horse - Horsemanship in Carson

Chapter XXV - The Mormons in Nevada - How to Persuade a Loan from Them

Chapter XXVI - The Silver Fever - State of the Market

Chapter XXVII - Our Manner of Going - Incidents of the Trip

Chapter XXVIII - Arrive at the Mountains - Building Our Cabin

Chapter XXIX - Out Prospecting - A Silver Mine at Last

Chapter XXX - Disinterested Friends - How "Feet" Were Sold

Chapter XXXI - The Guests at "Honey Lake Smith's"

Chapter XXXII - Desperate Situation - Attempts to Make a Fire

Chapter XXXIII - Return of Consciousness - Ridiculous Developments

Chapter XXXIV - About Carson - General Buncombe

Chapter XXXV - A New Travelling Companion - All Full and No Accommodations

Chapter XXXVI - A Quartz Mill - Amalgamation

Chapter XXXVII - The Whiteman Cement Mine - Story of Its Discovery

Chapter XXXVIII - Mono Lake - Shampooing Made Easy

Chapter XXXIX - Visit to the Islands in Lake Mono

Chapter XL - The "Wide West" Mine - It is "Interviewed" by Higbie

Chapter XLI - A Rheumatic Patient - Day Dreams

Chapter XLII - What to Do Next? - Obstacles I Had Met With

Chapter XLIII - My Friend Boggs - The School Report

Chapter XLIV - Flush Times - Plenty of Stock

Chapter XLV - Flush Times Continue - Sanitary Commission Fund

Chapter XLVI - The Nabobs of Those Days - John Smith as a Traveler

Chapter XLVII - Buck Fanshaw's Death - The Cause Thereof

Chapter XLVIII - The First Twenty-Six Graves in Nevada

Chapter XLIX - Fatal Shooting Affray - Robbery and Desperate Affray

Chapter L - Captain Ned Blakely - Bill Nookes Receives Desired Information

Chapter LI - The Weekly Occidental - A Ready Editor

Chapter LII - Freights to California - Silver Bricks

Chapter LIII - Jim Blaine and His Grandfather's Ram - Filkin's Mistake

Chapter LIV - Chinese in Virginia City - Washing Bills

Chapter LV - Tired of Virginia City - An Old Schoolmate

Chapter LVI - Off for San Francisco - Western and Eastern Landscapes

Chapter LVII - California - Novelty of Seeing a Woman

Chapter LVIII - Life in San Francisco - Worthless Stocks

Chapter LIX - Poor Again - Slinking as a Business

Chapter LX - An Old Friend - An Educated Miner

Chapter LXI - Dick Baker and His Cat - Tom Quartz's Peculiarities

Chapter LXII - Bound for the Sandwich Islands - The Three Captains

Chapter LXIII - Arrival at the Islands - Honolulu

Chapter LXIV - An Excursion - Captain Phillips and His Turn-Out

Chapter LXV - Interesting Mementoes and Relics - An Old Legend of a Frightful Leap

Chapter LXVI - A Saturday Afternoon - Sandwich Island Girls on a Frolic

Chapter LXVII - The Legislature of the Island - What Its President Has Seen

Chapter LXVIII - A Royal Funeral - Order of Procession

Chapter LXIX - "Once more upon the Waters," - A Noisy Passenger

Chapter LXX - A Droll Character - Mrs. Beazely and Her Son

Chapter LXXI - Kealakekau Bay - Death of Captain Cook

Chapter LXXII - Young Kanakas in New England - A Temple Built by Ghosts

Chapter LXXIII - Native Canoes - Surf Bathing

Chapter LXXIV - Visit to the Volcano - The Crater

Chapter LXXV - The North Lake - Fountains of Fire

Chapter LXXVI - A Reminiscence - Another Horse Story

Chapter LXXVII - A Curious Character

Chapter LXXVIII - Return to San Francisco - Ship Amusements

Chapter LXXIX - Highwaymen - A Predicament

Appendix A - Brief Sketch of Mormon History B


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