Memoirs and reminiscences by Mark Twain about his turbulent young years of wandering across the American Far West during the “silver fever” era in Nevada.
As the author says, the purpose of this book is to entertain the reader, but not to bore with terminology and historical facts. From the novel, you can learn a lot: for example, the most curious story of the Far West—one that no one who was there at that time and witnessed those events had described before. The book refers to the silver fever in Nevada, an occurrence unusually fascinating for those lands—perhaps the only one of its kind; nothing like it had happened there before, and it is unlikely to happen again.