Status Updates From Mark Twain: Complete Works

2026-08-01 Getting into "Roughing It" and enjoying it very much. Twain has such colorful and lively ways of describing things: scenery, characters, morals, customs, modes of travel, etc. It is about two brothers travelling by "land coach" from Missouri to Sacramento, CA in the 1850s (before the civil war and the trans-continental RR. The movie version with James Garner narrating was quite good too. More later.

2026-08-01 I finished "The American Claimant" a week or so ago. It started out fairly strange, got much better - was really good at cutting down unearned aristocratic titles - but then finished up pretty strange and unclear. I'm looking forward to reading what others have said about this.