In early American History Bret Harte and Mark Twain’s writings played a vital role in shaping and describing what could be called, “the American Dream”. In the early infrastructure stage of American history, much work had to be done to get the country where it needed to be to thrive. Such works as, “The Innocents Abroad”, by Mark Twain, told about a few different journeys that were taken to reach a “Holy Land”(Cite). This “Holy Land” represents the “American Dream” because it was an end point or destination that American immigrants were so desperately in search of to feel accomplished. The “common man” in reference to Twain was most likely the American people that he encountered during his travels that were in search of success through hard
