# Roughing it

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- Book: [Roughing it](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-twain/roughing-it) ([Roughing it.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-twain/roughing-it.md))
- Authors: [Mark Twain](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-twain)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4039-010-0
- Pages: 592
- Published: 1982-03-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s.