Reality of a dream (Roughing IT)

Reality of a Dream In the book Roughing It by Mark Twain, Twain gives his account of the West he encountered on his journey across the U.S. Twain depicts many aspects of the west such as outlaws, Indians, Mormons, and miners. All of the mentioned were and still are stereotyped by people not possessing the entire truth. Because of this many of the people are misinformed on the truth of these different sections of …

…story of the Diamond Field Gold Rush by Holmes and Fischer correlates to how Twain saw and depicts mining in Roughing It . Therefore, I think Twain representation of the miner looking for the quick buck and finding reality is accurate. It is accurate not only because a historical book shows the same thing but also because people can see the same characteristics of mining today in the gambling of today's society in places like LasVegas.