From the University of California, Berkeley's Bancroft Library comes Mark Twain in the West, an impressive collection of archival material relating to the author's time spent in Nevada and California. In 1861, Samuel Clemens left his home state of Missouri for Nevada, where he worked as a miner and began writing under his pen name, Mark Twain. In 1864, Clemens headed for San Francisco, where he wrote for a number of newspapers and continued to travel throughout the west before departing for New York in 1868. With this resource, visitors can examine a number of fascinating documents, including a letter Clemens wrote to his brother Orion from Esmeralda County, Nevada; the first piece of writing signed as "Mark Twain;" and columns that the author penned for the Territorial Enterprise in Nevada. Visitors can also look at part of the lost manuscript for Roughing It, a semi-autobiographical account of the author's time out west. As a whole, this collection sheds light on a formative time and place for the Clemen's future work.