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Roughing It #2: The Miner

By April 21, 2012Nevada, Roughing It

This is the second in a series of posts detailing my 2010 photo series ‘Roughing It.’ The images are based on characters and scenes from Mark Twain’s eponymous volume about his travels and adventures in Nevada and other Western states.

“I had been a private secretary, a silver miner and a silver mill operative, and amounted to less than nothing in each, and now– What to do next?

I yielded to Higbieʼs appeals and consented to try the mining once more.”

Credits: Lamar Baxla as the miner