Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz!

In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a newcomer in the Wild West, working as a civil servant, silver prospector, mill worker, and finally a reporter and traveling lecturer. Roughing It is the hilarious record of those early years traveling from Nevada to California to Hawaii, as Twain tried his luck at anything and everything—and usually failed. Twain’s encounters with tarantulas and donkeys, vigilantes and volcanoes, even Brigham Young, the Mormon leader, come to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales.

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0:00 Introduction

4:50 About the Author

6:30 Ch1: Stage 1

15:40 Ch2: Heart of the West

26:50 Ch3: Salt Lake

33:35 Ch4: Mine Struggle

51:45 Ch5: Lye After Lye

1:00:35 Ch6: Golden Coast

1:04:55 Ch7: Cooked Islands

1:10:15 Next Time & Goodbye!

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