Mark Twain on Mines, Miners, Mining, ad Mining Camps

摘要

As a young man, Samuel Clemens tried to make Ms fortune as a miner in Nevada and California. Fortunately, he failed and ended up working as a reporter for Virginia City's newspaper the Territorial Enterprise. Mining's loss was the literary world's gain as Clemens began writing under the name Mark Twain. However, Twain's experience with mining didn't stop there. Later as an international celebrity, he continued to visit and tour mines in places as widespread as Africa and Australia. These, along with his observations on mining in the Old West were preserved in several of his books.