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Kim, Jason. “Mark Twain’s Mythic Persona in Roughing It.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 21-44. On the Oregon-California Trail, Mark Twain saw many things and recorded them from his different personas’ subjective points of view in his Roughing It, about which “no books have been written.” It is also important to see the psychological aspect of Mark Twain’s alternating personas in different situations and, consequently, the creation of an American mythic character living free from worldly cares, an antagonist to a heroic superman type. Roughing It is told by three different personas of Mark Twain: the first part by the innocent Mark Twain; the second by the seasoned, but not grown up, Mark Twain. The third persona is the travel writer Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens successfully gets away from a serious and rational persona by adopting his pseudonym Mark Twain. Freed from the social requirements to be a serious and rational writer, Mark Twain is able to create other, humorous and innocent personas in his travel book. His early travel book, Roughing It, becomes a perfect arena to create such innocent, naive, dead-pan, and unsophisticated characters, and make them experience new adventures and risks, who never grow into experienced personas and who have become mythic characters in the USA. (Konyang University)