Roughing It
An update on the previous post: Henry James Monk (whom you will learn more about if you click on the link below) has been kind enough to provide a link to the Chapter from Mark Twain's seminal work Roughing It in which Mr. Twain recounts traveling through some of the areas that Melissa and I passed through this past weekend and are so fond of. Because it's difficult to cut-and-paste from Blogspot's comment sections, I decided I'd post a link here. Please read Mr. Twain's account--not only is Twain the greatest pure storyteller this nation has ever produced, but it's a fascinating bit of Nevada/California history from one of the English language's most entertaining writers.
posted by Yukon Sully | 8:18 PM
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It much distresses me to find Samuel Langhorne Clemens' version of my trip from Carson to Dry Diggins (or Hangtown) so much more well known than my own. Beautiful country now as then.
Few people know I might very well have defeated U.S. Grant for the highest office in the land were it not for Twain's yarn at my expense.
Just for the record, that liar Twain, got all of his best ideas from his boss at his first writing job, the Enterprise. Read William Wright's early work and you'll see where Clemens got his style.
For another version of the story, read Guy Rocha's ... just drag, click and paste:
http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060108/COL17/601080314/1120
Horace Greeley
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