Roughing It

Two American originals, Mark Twain and the West, come together in this documentary of the author¿s seven-year ¿pleasure trip¿ to the silver mines of Nevada. Twain had originally planned the trip to be a three-month ¿vacation;¿ not surprisingly for someone of Twain¿s temperament, the trip lasted seven years. His journey, like his book, has a way of taking ever-unexpected turns.