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Roughing It

Mark Twain

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1872
Pages
Pages 590

"The coyote is a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton," Twain writes, "a living, breathing allegory of Want," and from that sentence on the whole American West belongs to him. A young Missourian rides a stagecoach across the plains with his brother, bound for the Nevada silver country and certain of getting rich.

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want.
Roughing It, Mark Twain

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