Roughing It.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Scituate : Digital Scanning, Incorporated, Sept. 2001.Description: 1 online resource (612 p.) : illContent type:
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Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Roughing It
Contents:
""ROUGHING IT""; ""PREFATORY""; ""CONTENTS""; ""CHAPTER I.""; ""My Brother appointed Secretary of Nevada""; ""I Envy His Prospective Adventures""; ""Am Appointed Private Secretary Under Him""; ""My Contentment Complete""; ""Packed in One Hour""; ""Dreams and Visions""; ""On the Missouri River""; ""A Bully Boat""; ""CHAPTER II.""; ""Arrive at St. Joseph ""; ""Only Twenty-five Pounds Baggage Allowed""; ""Farewell to Kid Gloves and Dress Coats""; ""Armed to the Teeth""; ""The ""Allen""""; ""A Cheerful Weapon""; ""Persuaded to Buy a Mule""; ""Schedule of Luxuries""; ""We Leave the States""
""Our Coach""""Mails for the Indians""; ""Between a Wink and an Earthquake""; ""A Modern Sphynx and How She Entertained Us""; ""A Sociable Heifer""; ""CHAPTER III.""; ""The Thoroughbrace is Broke""; ""Mails Delivered Properly""; ""Sleeping Under Difficulties""; ""A Jackass Rabbit Meditating, and on Business""; ""A Modern Gulliver""; ""Sage-brush""; ""Overcoats as an Article of Diet""; ""Sad Fate of a Camel""; ""Warning to Experimenters""; ""CHAPTER IV.""; ""Making Our Bed""; ""Assaults by the Unabridged""; ""At a Station""; ""Our Driver a Great and Shining Dignitary""
""Strange Place for a Frontyard""""Accommodations""; ""Double Portraits""; ""An Heirloom""; ""Our Worthy Landlord""; ""Fixings and Things""; ""An Exile""; ""Slumgullion""; ""A Well Furnished Table""; ""The Landlord Astonished""; ""Table Etiquette""; ""Wild Mexican Mules""; ""Stage-coaching and Railroading.""; ""CHAPTER V.""; ""New Acquaintances""; ""The Cayote""; ""A Dog�s Experiences""; ""A Disgusted Dog""; ""Untitled""; ""The Relatives of the Cayote""; ""Meals Taken Away from Home""; ""CHAPTER VI.""; ""The Division Superintendent""; ""The Conductor""; ""The Driver""
""One Hundred and Fifty Miles� Drive Without Sleep""""Teaching a Subordinate""; ""Our Old Friend Jack and a Pilgrim""; ""Ben Holliday Compared to Moses""; ""CHAPTER VII.""; ""Overland City""; ""Crossing the Platte""; ""Bemis�s Buffalo Hunt""; ""Assault by a Buffalo""; ""Bemis�s Horse Goes Crazy""; ""An Impromptu Circus""; ""A New Departure""; ""Bemis Finds Refuge in a Tree""; ""Escapes Finally by a Wonderful Method""; ""CHAPTER VIII.""; ""The Pony Express""; ""Fifty Miles Without Stopping""; ""Here he Comes""; ""Alkali Water""; ""Riding an Avalanchev""; ""Indian Massacre""
""CHAPTER IX.""""Among the Indians""; ""An Unfair Advantage""; ""Laying on our Arms""; ""A Midnight Murder""; ""Wrath of Outlaws""; ""A Dangerous, yet Valuable Citizen""; ""CHAPTER X.""; ""History of Slade""; ""A Proposed Fist-fight""; ""Encounter with Jules""; ""Paradise of Outlaws""; ""Slade as Superintendent""; ""As Executioner""; ""A Doomed Whisky Seller""; ""A Prisoner""; ""A Wife�s Bravery""; ""An Ancient Enemy Captured""; ""Enjoying a Luxury""; ""Hob-nobbing with Slade""; ""Too Polite""; ""A Happy Escape""; ""CHAPTER XI.""; ""Slade in Montana""; ""On a Spree""; ""In Court""
Summary: Annotation. These memoirs recount the writer and humorist's scuffling years with spirited travels across the American West and all the way to Hawaii. From the stage drivers and desperadoes of the Great Plains and the mines and miners of Nevada to the climate and characteristics of San Francisco and the amusing and unexpected traits of Sandwich Island civilization.
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""ROUGHING IT""; ""PREFATORY""; ""CONTENTS""; ""CHAPTER I.""; ""My Brother appointed Secretary of Nevada""; ""I Envy His Prospective Adventures""; ""Am Appointed Private Secretary Under Him""; ""My Contentment Complete""; ""Packed in One Hour""; ""Dreams and Visions""; ""On the Missouri River""; ""A Bully Boat""; ""CHAPTER II.""; ""Arrive at St. Joseph ""; ""Only Twenty-five Pounds Baggage Allowed""; ""Farewell to Kid Gloves and Dress Coats""; ""Armed to the Teeth""; ""The ""Allen""""; ""A Cheerful Weapon""; ""Persuaded to Buy a Mule""; ""Schedule of Luxuries""; ""We Leave the States""

""Our Coach""""Mails for the Indians""; ""Between a Wink and an Earthquake""; ""A Modern Sphynx and How She Entertained Us""; ""A Sociable Heifer""; ""CHAPTER III.""; ""The Thoroughbrace is Broke""; ""Mails Delivered Properly""; ""Sleeping Under Difficulties""; ""A Jackass Rabbit Meditating, and on Business""; ""A Modern Gulliver""; ""Sage-brush""; ""Overcoats as an Article of Diet""; ""Sad Fate of a Camel""; ""Warning to Experimenters""; ""CHAPTER IV.""; ""Making Our Bed""; ""Assaults by the Unabridged""; ""At a Station""; ""Our Driver a Great and Shining Dignitary""

""Strange Place for a Frontyard""""Accommodations""; ""Double Portraits""; ""An Heirloom""; ""Our Worthy Landlord""; ""Fixings and Things""; ""An Exile""; ""Slumgullion""; ""A Well Furnished Table""; ""The Landlord Astonished""; ""Table Etiquette""; ""Wild Mexican Mules""; ""Stage-coaching and Railroading.""; ""CHAPTER V.""; ""New Acquaintances""; ""The Cayote""; ""A Dog�s Experiences""; ""A Disgusted Dog""; ""Untitled""; ""The Relatives of the Cayote""; ""Meals Taken Away from Home""; ""CHAPTER VI.""; ""The Division Superintendent""; ""The Conductor""; ""The Driver""

""One Hundred and Fifty Miles� Drive Without Sleep""""Teaching a Subordinate""; ""Our Old Friend Jack and a Pilgrim""; ""Ben Holliday Compared to Moses""; ""CHAPTER VII.""; ""Overland City""; ""Crossing the Platte""; ""Bemis�s Buffalo Hunt""; ""Assault by a Buffalo""; ""Bemis�s Horse Goes Crazy""; ""An Impromptu Circus""; ""A New Departure""; ""Bemis Finds Refuge in a Tree""; ""Escapes Finally by a Wonderful Method""; ""CHAPTER VIII.""; ""The Pony Express""; ""Fifty Miles Without Stopping""; ""Here he Comes""; ""Alkali Water""; ""Riding an Avalanchev""; ""Indian Massacre""

""CHAPTER IX.""""Among the Indians""; ""An Unfair Advantage""; ""Laying on our Arms""; ""A Midnight Murder""; ""Wrath of Outlaws""; ""A Dangerous, yet Valuable Citizen""; ""CHAPTER X.""; ""History of Slade""; ""A Proposed Fist-fight""; ""Encounter with Jules""; ""Paradise of Outlaws""; ""Slade as Superintendent""; ""As Executioner""; ""A Doomed Whisky Seller""; ""A Prisoner""; ""A Wife�s Bravery""; ""An Ancient Enemy Captured""; ""Enjoying a Luxury""; ""Hob-nobbing with Slade""; ""Too Polite""; ""A Happy Escape""; ""CHAPTER XI.""; ""Slade in Montana""; ""On a Spree""; ""In Court""

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Annotation. These memoirs recount the writer and humorist's scuffling years with spirited travels across the American West and all the way to Hawaii. From the stage drivers and desperadoes of the Great Plains and the mines and miners of Nevada to the climate and characteristics of San Francisco and the amusing and unexpected traits of Sandwich Island civilization.

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