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  • I bought a book years ago called Roughing It Easy by Dian Thomas.

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  • Twain's Roughing It, and Joaquin Miller's Songs of the Sierras all appeared within three years of the completion of the railroad.

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  • Or, some of the more obscure gems such as Mark Twain's hilarious travelogue, Roughing It?

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  • Mr. Morris ably recounts Twain's western misadventures, though the best sections draw from Twain's own hilarious account in "Roughing It" (1872).

    A Mississippian Flood 2010

  • Mr. Morris ably recounts Twain's western misadventures, though the best sections draw from Twain's own hilarious account in "Roughing It" (1872).

    A Mississippian Flood 2010

  • "Roughing it" means a Hilton without a pool to you; he refuses to even bring toilet paper on camping adventures.

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  • Cartoonist Chuck Jones created "Wile E. Coyote" based on Twain's first encounter with a "cayote" in Roughing It, arguably Twain's best kept literary secret.

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  • For "Roughing It" — that odd collection of travelogue, myth-book, joke-book and memoir — is among the most original works of American literature.

    A Mississippian Flood 2010

  • For "Roughing It" — that odd collection of travelogue, myth-book, joke-book and memoir — is among the most original works of American literature.

    A Mississippian Flood 2010

  • For "Roughing It" — that odd collection of travelogue, myth-book, joke-book and memoir — is among the most original works of American literature.

    A Mississippian Flood 2010

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