sentences:  The "Springfield Republican" called it "a genuine California story" that was "so true to nature and so deep-reaching in its humor, that it will move the hearts of men everywhere".Mark Twain wrote in the "Buffalo Express" that it was "the best prose magazine article that has seen the light for many months on either side of the ocean".It was only after these endorsements that "The Luck of Roaring Camp" found a strong audience in California.