Watch Mark Twain's Roughing It

Mark Twain is not yet a famous author, but he knows he wants to build a great fortune. He is seventeen-years-old and he decides to go off with his brother to travel the United States. The pair gets into all types of misadventures along the way, including getting lost in the mountains during a severe winter storm. His brother just wants to work, the reason the journey began. Twain discovers his true talent along the way, never finding the gold in quite the way he thought he would, but finding it within the tips of his fingers and the people that he meets along the way.