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CHAPTER I. My Brother appointed Secretary of Nevada—I Envy His
CHAPTER II. Arrive at St. Joseph—Only Twenty-five Pounds Baggage
CHAPTER III. “The Thoroughbrace is Broke”—Mails Delivered
CHAPTER IV. Making Our Bed—Assaults by the Unabridged—At a Station—Our
CHAPTER V. New Acquaintances—The Cayote—A Dog’s Experiences—A Disgusted
CHAPTER VI. The Division Superintendent—The Conductor—The Driver—One
CHAPTER VII. Overland City—Crossing the Platte—Bemis’s Buffalo
CHAPTER VIII. The Pony Express—Fifty Miles Without Stopping—“Here he
CHAPTER IX. Among the Indians—An Unfair Advantage—Laying on our Arms—A
CHAPTER X. History of Slade—A Proposed Fist-fight—Encounter with
CHAPTER XI. Slade in Montana—“On a Spree”—In Court—Attack on a
CHAPTER XII. A Mormon Emigrant Train—The Heart of the Rocky
CHAPTER XIII. Mormons and Gentiles—Exhilarating Drink, and its Effect on
CHAPTER XIV. Mormon Contractors—How Mr. Street Astonished Them—The Case
CHAPTER XV. A Gentile Den—Polygamy Discussed—Favorite Wife and D.
CHAPTER XVI. The Mormon Bible—Proofs of its Divinity—Plagiarism of its
CHAPTER XVII. Three Sides to all Questions—Everything “A
CHAPTER XVIII. Alkali Desert—Romance of Crossing Dispelled—Alkali
CHAPTER XIX. The Digger Indians Compared with the Bushmen of
CHAPTER XX. The Great American Desert—Forty Miles on Bones—Lakes Without
CHAPTER XXI. Alkali Dust—Desolation and Contemplation—Carson City—Our
CHAPTER XXII. The Son of a Nabob—Start for Lake Tahoe—Splendor of the
CHAPTER XXIII. A Happy Life—Lake Tahoe and its Moods—Transparency of the
CHAPTER XXIV. Resolve to Buy a Horse—Horsemanship in Carson—A
CHAPTER XXV. The Mormons in Nevada—How to Persuade a Loan from
CHAPTER XXVI. The Silver Fever—State of the Market—Silver Bricks—Tales
CHAPTER XXVII. Our manner of going—Incidents of the Trip—A Warm but Too
CHAPTER XXVIII. Arrive at the Mountains—Building Our Cabin—My First
CHAPTER XXIX. Out Prospecting—A Silver Mine At Last—Making a Fortune
CHAPTER XXX. Disinterested Friends—How “Feet” Were Sold—We Quit
CHAPTER XXXI. The Guests at “Honey Lake Smith’s”—“Bully Old
CHAPTER XXXII. Desperate Situation—Attempts to Make a Fire—Our Horses
CHAPTER XXXIII. Return of Consciousness—Ridiculous Developments—A
CHAPTER XXXIV. About Carson—General Buncombe—Hyde vs. Morgan—How Hyde
CHAPTER XXXV. A New Travelling Companion—All Full and No
CHAPTER XXXVI. A Quartz Mill—Amalgamation—“Screening Tailings”—First
CHAPTER XXXVII. The Whiteman Cement Mine—Story of its Discovery—A Secret
CHAPTER XXXVIII. Mono Lake—Shampooing Made Easy—Thoughtless Act of Our
CHAPTER XXXIX. Visit to the Islands in Lake Mono—Ashes and
CHAPTER XL. The “Wide West” Mine—It is “Interviewed” by Higbie—A Blind
CHAPTER XLI. A Rheumatic Patient—Day Dreams—An Unfortunate Stumble—I
CHAPTER XLII. What to do Next?—Obstacles I Had Met With—“Jack of All
CHAPTER XLIII. My Friend Boggs—The School Report—Boggs Pays Me An Old
CHAPTER XLIV. Flush Times—Plenty of Stock—Editorial Puffing—Stocks Given
CHAPTER XLV. Flush Times Continue—Sanitary Commission Fund—Wild
CHAPTER XLVI. The Nabobs of Those Days—John Smith as a Traveler—Sudden
CHAPTER XLVII. Buck Fanshaw’s Death—The Cause Thereof—Preparations for
CHAPTER XLVIII. The First Twenty-Six Graves in Nevada—The Prominent Men
CHAPTER XLIX. Fatal Shooting Affray—Robbery and Desperate Affray—A
CHAPTER L. Captain Ned Blakely—Bill Nookes Receives Desired
CHAPTER LI. The Weekly Occidental—A Ready Editor—A Novel—A Concentration
CHAPTER LII. Freights to California—Silver Bricks—Under Ground
CHAPTER LIII. Jim Blaine and his Grandfather’s Ram—Filkin’s Mistake—Old
CHAPTER LIV. Chinese in Virginia City—Washing Bills—Habit of
CHAPTER LV. Tired of Virginia City—An Old Schoolmate—A Two Years’
CHAPTER LVI. Off for San Francisco—Western and Eastern Landscapes—The
CHAPTER LVII. California—Novelty of Seeing a Woman—“Well if it ain’t a
CHAPTER LVIII. Life in San Francisco—Worthless Stocks—My First
CHAPTER LIX. Poor Again—Slinking as a Business—A Model Collector—Misery
CHAPTER LX. An Old Friend—An Educated Miner—Pocket Mining—Freaks of
CHAPTER LXI. Dick Baker and his Cat—Tom Quartz’s Peculiarities—On an
CHAPTER LXII. Bound for the Sandwich Islands—The Three Captains—The Old
CHAPTER LXIII. Arrival at the Islands—Honolulu—What I Saw There—Dress
CHAPTER LXIV. An Excursion—Captain Phillips and his Turn-Out—A Horseback
CHAPTER LXV. Interesting Mementoes and Relics—An Old Legend of a
CHAPTER LXVI. A Saturday Afternoon—Sandwich Island Girls on a Frolic—The
CHAPTER LXVII. The Legislature of the Island—What Its President Has
CHAPTER LXVIII. A Royal Funeral—Order of Procession—Pomp and Ceremony—A
CHAPTER LXIX. “Once more upon the Waters.”—A Noisy Passenger—Several
CHAPTER LXX. A Droll Character—Mrs. Beazely and Her Son—Meditations on
CHAPTER LXXI. _Kealakekua_ Bay—Death of Captain Cook—His Monument—Its
CHAPTER LXXII. Young Kanakas in New England—A Temple Built by
CHAPTER LXXIII. Native Canoes—Surf Bathing—A Sanctuary—How Built—The
CHAPTER LXXIV. Visit to the Volcano—The Crater—Pillar of
CHAPTER LXXV. The North Lake—Fountains of Fire—Streams of Burning
CHAPTER LXXVI. A Reminiscence—Another Horse Story—My Ride with the
CHAPTER LXXVII. A Curious Character—A Series of Stories—Sad Fate of a
CHAPTER LXXVIII. Return to San Francisco—Ship Amusements—Preparing for
CHAPTER LXXIX. Highwaymen—A Predicament—
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