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Guy Cardwell wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation for their generous financial support of this series.
Roughing It
by
Mark Twain
TO CALVIN H. HIGBIE, Of California, An Honest Man, a Genial Comrade, and a Steadfast Friend, THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED By the Author, In Memory of the Curious Time When We Two
were millionaires for ten days
.
Prefatory
This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. Still, there is information in the volume; information concerning an interesting episode in the history of the Far West, about which no books have been written by persons who were on the ground in person, and saw the happenings of t . . .
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