"Roughing It," the Authoritative Text from The Mark Twain Project, is the best paperback edition of Twain's adventures in Nevada and California, where he fled to escape the Civil War in the days of the wild west. First published in 1872, this edition includes all the original art, showing the funny scrapes Sam Clemens got into as he stumbled toward his eventual career as a writer. With 300 pages of notes, references, and appendices, this is the best edition for all Twain fans.