Twain's tall-tale memoir of stagecoach travel, silver fever, and frontier life in the American West and Hawaii. Comic autobiography at full gallop.
Books mentioned in Roughing It (4)
Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Charles Reade: “…whale traveling from Behring's Strait to the coast of Greenland, five thousand miles in five days, through the Arctic Ocean, from Charles Reade's "Love Me Little Love Me Long," and considered that that established the fact that the thing could be done; and he instanced Jonah's adventure as…”
The Mormon Prophet by C. V. Waite: “Waite's book, "The Mormon Prophet," came out with Judge Cradlebaugh's trial of the accused parties in it and revealed the truth that the latter version was the correct one and that the Mormons were the assassins.”
The Vigilantes of Montana by Thomas J. Dimsdale: “From a bloodthirstily interesting little Montana book.--["The Vigilantes of Montana," by Prof.”
The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World by J. G. Wood: “I have been obliged to look the bulky volumes of Wood’s “Uncivilized Races of Men” clear through in order to find a savage tribe degraded enough to take rank with the Goshoots.”