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Informationen zum Autor Harriet Elinor Smith, Lin Salamo , and Robert Pack Browning are associate editors with the Mark Twain Project. Edgar Marquess Branch is Emeritus Professor of English at Miami University. Klappentext Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous." Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, the text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, and includes all of the 304 first-edition illustrations. With its comprehensive and illuminating notes and supplementary materials, which include detailed maps tracing Mark Twain's western travels, this Mark Twain Library Roughing It must be considered the standard edition for readers and students of Mark Twain. Zusammenfassung Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the 'vigorous new vernacular' of the West. This text intends to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation. Inhaltsverzeichnis ILLUSTRATIONS FOREWORD ROUGHING IT Prefatory 1. My Brother Appointed Secretary ofNevada-I Envy His Prospective Adventures-Am Appointed Private Secretary under Him- My Contentment Complete- Packed in One HourDreams and Visions- On the Missouri River- A "Bully" Boat 2. Arrive at St. Joseph-Only Twenty-five Pounds Baggage Allowed-Farewell to Kid Gloves and Dress Coats-Armed to the Teeth- The "Allen"-A Cheerful Weapon- Persuaded to Buy a Mule- Schedule of luxuries- We Leave "the States" -Our Coach-Mails for the Indians- Between a Wink and an Earthquake-A Modern Sphynx and How She Entertained Us-A Sociable Heifer 3. "The Thoroughbrace Is Broke"-Mails Delivered ProperlySleeping under Difficulties-A Jackass Rabbit Meditating, and on Business-A Modern Gulliver- Sage-brush- Overcoats as an Article of Diet- Sad Fate of a Camel-Warning to Experimenters 4. Making Our Bed-Assaults by the Unabridged-At a Station- Our Driver a Great and Shining Dignitary-Strange Place for a Front Yard- Accommodations-Double Portraits- An Heirloom-Our Worthy Landlord-"Fixings and Things"-An Exile-Slum-gullion-A Well Furnished Table-The Landlord Astonished- Table Etiquette- Wild Mexican Mules- Stage-coaching and Railroading 5. New Acquaintances-The Cayote-A Dog's Experiences- A Disgusted Dog-The Relatives of the Cayote -Meals Taken Away from Home 6. The Division Superintendent-The Conductor-The Driver-One Hundred and Fifty Miles' Drive without Sleep- Teaching a Subordinate-Our Old Friend Jack and a Pi!- grim-Ben Holladay Compared to Moses 7. Overland City-Crossing the Platte-Bemis's Buffalo Hunt -Assault by a Buffalo-Bemis's Horse Goes Crazy- An Impromptu Circus-A New Departure-Bemis Finds Refuge in a Tree-Escapes Finally by a Wonderful Method 41 8. The Pony Express-Fifty Miles without Stopping-"Here He Comes!"-Alkali Water-Riding an Avalanche-Indian Massacre 9. Among the Indians-An Unfair Advantage-Lying on Our Arms-A Midnight Murder-Wrath of Outlaws-A Dangerous, Yet Valuable Citizen 10. History of Slade-A Proposed Fist-Fight-Encounter with Jul...
