"ROUGHING IT"

by MARK TWAIN

 

Free Public Domain E-Book

1880

 

 

PREFATORY.........................................................................................................1

CHAPTER 1............My Brother  - Secretary of Nevada ...................................2
CHAPTER 2............Arrive at St. Joseph ............................................................7
CHAPTER 3............"The Thoroughbrace is Broke" ..........................................9
CHAPTER 4............Making Our Bed.................................................................12
CHAPTER 5............New Acquaintances ..........................................................16
CHAPTER 6............The Division Superintendent ............................................18
CHAPTER 7............Overland City ......................................................................20
CHAPTER 8............The Pony Express ..............................................................
CHAPTER 9............Among The Indians ............................................................
CHAPTER 10..........History of Slade .................................................................
CHAPTER 11..........Slade In Montana ...............................................................
CHAPTER 12..........A Mormon Emigrant Train ................................................
CHAPTER 13..........Mormons And Gentiles .....................................................
CHAPTER 14..........Mormon Contractors .........................................................
CHAPTER 15..........A Gentle Den .....................................................................
CHAPTER 16..........The Mormon Bible .............................................................
CHAPTER 17..........Three Sides To All Questions ..........................................
CHAPTER 18..........Alkali Desert ......................................................................
CHAPTER 19..........The Digger Indians ...........................................................
CHAPTER 20..........The Great American Desert .............................................
CHAPTER 21..........Alkali Dust ..........................................................................
CHAPTER 22..........The Son Of A Nabob .........................................................
CHAPTER 23..........A Happy Life ......................................................................
CHAPTER 24..........Resolve To Buy A Horse ..................................................
CHAPTER 25..........The Mormons In Nevada ...................................................
CHAPTER 26..........The Silver Fever .................................................................
CHAPTER 27..........Our Manner Of Going .........................................................
CHAPTER 28..........Arrive At The Mountains ....................................................
CHAPTER 29..........Out Prospecting ..................................................................
CHAPTER 30..........Disinterested Friends ........................................................
CHAPTER 31..........The Guests At "Honey Lake Smith's" ..............................
CHAPTER 32..........Desperate Situation ..........................................................
CHAPTER 33..........Return of Consciousness ..................................................
CHAPTER 34..........About Carson ......................................................................
CHAPTER 35..........A New Travelling Companion ...........................................
CHAPTER 36..........A Quartz Mill ........................................................................
CHAPTER 37..........The Whiteman Cement Mine ............................................
CHAPTER 38..........Mono Lake ..........................................................................
CHAPTER 39..........Visit To The Islands In Lake Mono ....................................
CHAPTER 40..........The "Wide West" Mine ......................................................
CHAPTER 41..........A Rheumatic Patient ..........................................................
CHAPTER 42..........What To Do Next ................................................................
CHAPTER 43..........My Friend Boggs ................................................................
CHAPTER 44..........Flush Times .........................................................................
CHAPTER 45..........Flush Times Continued .......................................................
CHAPTER 46..........The Nabobs Of Those Days...............................................
CHAPTER 47..........Buck Fanshaw's Death ......................................................
CHAPTER 48..........The First Twenty-Six Graves In Nevada ...........................
CHAPTER 49..........Fatal Shooting Affray ........................................................
CHAPTER 50..........Captain Ned Blakely .........................................................
CHAPTER 51..........The Weekly Occidental ......................................................
CHAPTER 52..........Freights To California ........................................................
CHAPTER 53..........Jim Blaine ...........................................................................
CHAPTER 54..........Chinese in Virginia City .....................................................
CHAPTER 55..........Tired of Virginia City ..........................................................
CHAPTER 56..........Off For San Francisco........................................................
CHAPTER 57..........California ............................................................................
CHAPTER 58..........Life In San Francisco.........................................................
CHAPTER 59..........Poor Again .........................................................................
CHAPTER 60..........An Old Friend .....................................................................
CHAPTER 61..........Dick Baker And His Cat....................................................
CHAPTER 62.......... Bound For The Sandwich Islands....................................
CHAPTER 63..........Arrival At The Islands .........................................................
CHAPTER 64..........An Excursion ......................................................................
CHAPTER 65..........Interesting Mementoes And Relics...................................
CHAPTER 66..........A Saturday Afternoon ........................................................
CHAPTER 67..........The Legislature of the Island .............................................
CHAPTER 68..........A Royal Funeral ..................................................................
CHAPTER 69.........."Once More Upon the Waters.".........................................
CHAPTER 70..........A Droll Character................................................................
CHAPTER 71..........Kealakekua Bay .................................................................
CHAPTER 72..........Young Kanakas in New England ......................................
CHAPTER 73..........Native Canoes ....................................................................
CHAPTER 74..........Visit To The Volcano ..........................................................
CHAPTER 75..........The North Lake ...................................................................
CHAPTER 76..........A Reminiscence ..................................................................
CHAPTER 77..........A Curious Character............................................................
CHAPTER 78..........Return To San Francisco ...................................................
CHAPTER 79..........Highwaymen .......................................................................
APPENDIX A...........Brief Sketch of Mormon History .......................................

Transcribed and contributed by © Sally Kaleta


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