The Pattern for Mark Twain's Roughing It
A critical study of a series of letters discovered by the author during a visit to the Keokuk public library in 1959. Letters written by Samuel L. Clemens (not yet "Mark Twain") to the Keokuk, IA, Gate City from various points along his route to Nevada with his brother Orion in 1861. The volume also includes the texts of the letters plus others by Orion, materials used by Mark Twain in the writing of Roughing It.