Roughing It: The Works of Mark Twain

Another book I chose to read while on our California trip. Roughing It is an account of Twain's life in the West. Twain travels with his brother to California and Nevada during the time of the Gold Rush. Twain looks for silver, has run-ins with bad guys, and observes the West in its early days with humor and cleverness. Lots of politically incorrectness that probably struck the readers of the day as hilariously funny.

“... and so we concluded to build a ‘brush' house. We devoted the next day to this work, but we did so much ‰Ычsitting around‰ЫЄ and discussing, that by the middle of the afternoon we had achieved only a half-way sort of affair which one of us had to watch while the other cut brush, lest if both turned our backs we might not be able to find it again, it had such a strong family resemblance to the surrounding vegetation.”