Sam Clemens and friend arrive for the first time at Lake Tahoe. He claims there couldn't have been more than 15 people around the lake then. Now that's something I'd like to experience sometime. He is not at all clear on where he is exactly and there is some controversy about his camps location. The principal exponents of the two main arguments are David Antonucci and Bob Stewart. Mr Stewart has advised me he is working on a book involving gun fights, tarantulas and other features found in chapters 21, 22 and 23 of Roughing It. Mr.

This tale was read by request. As Ambrose Bierce was a friend/adversary of Mark Twain, both were journalists in San Francisco, I felt it appropriate for SLClemens to present it at The Deck in Second Life. The recording was made April 25, 2011. It was recorded as a screencast using gtk-recordMyDesktop. This program produces an ogv file. I then split this into it's audio and video tracks using oggSplit, then processed them with PiTiVi and rendered the project as an ogv file.

The journey west by stage has ended. Sam and Orion arrive in Carson City. He sees a gunfight, the afternoon wind storm, and the native tarantulas. The local architecture also provides Sam with some entertainment.

Mark and company depart Salt Lake City with many questions left unanswered. Of particular interest is just who was responsible for the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The party arrives in Overland City and find they need to adjust to the local prices.

I found this chapter to be too tedious to read in public. It is included here for the sake of providing the entire edition of Roughing It, as printed in the first edition. This chapter is merely Mark criticizing portions of the Mormon Bible with very large portions quoted. I would have read his sardonic portions but the "quoted" portions were just too long.