While Sam Clemens was living in Aurora In the summer and fall of 1862, the Indians were in open warfare with settlers and then with the Army in nearby Owens Valley. Aurora became a focal point for news of the conflict. Letters from Sam to Orion indicate Sam was peripherally involved in a minor way. All the Aurora news in California newspapers of those days and events mention the conflict. Yet in Roughing It, there is no mention of the matter. I am wondering if perhaps the omission was deliberate and while writing of his Western experience in 1870-71 he felt the Civil War wounds to the nation would not be a ready audience for tales of conflict.