Mark Twain - Roughing It

The Library offers for the first time popular editions of Mark Twains best works just as he wanted them to be read. These moderately priced volumes, faithfully reproduced from the California scholarly editions and printed on acid-free paper, are expertly annotated and include all the original illustrations that Mark Twain commissioned and enjoyed.

Huck waited for no particulars. He sprang away
and sped down the hill as fast as his
legs could carry him.

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

Contributing Editors for This Volume

Richard Bucci

Victor Fischer

Michael B. Frank

Kenneth M. Sanderson

Samuel L. Clemens in 1863 (above) and 1872.
Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library (CU-MARK).

The Miners Dream.

ILLUSTRATED BY TRUE WILLIAMS,

EDWARD F. MULLEN, AND OTHERS

Editors
Harriet Elinor Smith and Edgar Marquess Branch

Associate Editors
Lin Salamo and Robert Pack Browning

A publication of the
Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library

The text of this Mark Twain Library edition of Roughing It is identical with the text of the scholarly edition of Roughing It, edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and Edgar Marquess Branch (University of California Press, 1993). It was established in accord with the standards of the Center for Scholarly Editions (CSE). Editorial work was supported by a generous grant from the L. J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation and by matching funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency.

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London, England

The edited text of Roughing It, notes, and maps are 1993 by The Regents of the University of California. Editorial foreword and note on the text are 1995 by The Regents of the University of California.

Manufactured in the United States of America.

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Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Twain, Mark, 18351910.

Roughing it / Mark Twain ; illustrated by True Williams, Edward F. Mullen, and others ; editors, Harriet Elinor Smith and Edgar Marquess Branch ; associate editors, Lin Salamo and Robert Pack Browning.

p. cm.(The Mark Twain library)

A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 978-0-520-26817-3 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Twain, Mark, 18351910JourneysWest (U.S.) 2. Authors, American19th centuryJourneysWest (U.S.) 3. West (U.S.)Description and travel. I. Smith, Harriet Elinor. II. Branch, Edgar Marquess, 1913. III. Bancroft Library. IV. Title. V. Series: Twain, Mark, 18351910. Mark Twain Library.

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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper).

The Mark Twain Library is designed by Steve Renick.

The text of this Mark Twain Library edition of
Roughing It
is drawn from the Mark Twain Projects complete edition of
The Works and Papers of Mark Twain.
Editorial work for this volume has been supported by a grant to
The Friends of The Bancroft Library from the

L. J. SKAGGS AND MARY C. SKAGGS FOUNDATION

and by matching funds from the

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES,

an independent federal agency.

Without such generous support, these editions could
not have been produced.

Like most of Mark Twains best work, Roughing It is largely autobiographical, as its preface explains: This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing.... Still, there is information in the volume; information concerning an interesting episode in the history of the Far West, about which no books have been written by persons who were on the ground in person.