Mark Twain 
Roughing It 

Roughing It — Mark Twain — Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 18611867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother’s diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the novel.

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Mark Twain, the writer, adventurer and wily social critic born Samuel Clemens, wrote the novels ‘Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Who Was Mark Twain?Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, was the celebrated author of several novels, including two major classics of American literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor.