Introductory material

Frontispiece. “Hello, Bill!” The Start for California. Brazilian Music. The Swell at Cape Horn. An Able Seaman. Forty-niners at the Hotel in Lima. The Operatic Shark. The Prolific Topmast. The Calm. Neptune’s Orchestra. The Bullwhacker. “Ye Done it Weel.” The Dandy Miners. Smoked Out. The Frisky Flapjack. Hangtown in ’49. “None in Mine.” The Industrious Prospectors. “I Shust Nose It!” Bulling the Mine. “Ther, Ther, T, other One.” The Ducks Take Water. Dutch Charley. Dan Boone and the Bear. The First Rat in Hangtown. Rats in Sacramento City. The First Young Lady in the Mines. The Spartan Mother. The Boys Aloft. Emigration of ’50. The Howly Fragment. The Argonaut and His Mule. The Steamboat Runners. The Miners’ Meeting. On His Trail. “I’v Shtruck it, Thin.” The Sailor Boy. The Chap Who Insulted a Lady. The Claim Jumper. The Art of Self-defense. Didn’t Believe in Compromise. The Disgusted Speculator. “Write Often, Boys.” The Jack Tars on the Hill. The Geological Lecture. Old Nick’s Grand Entrée. A California Cyclone. Only Two Days in the Mines. A Simile. Female Influence Illustrated. Not Ready to Go. The Voice of Old Dick. Big George and the Road Agent. “There She Comes, Boys!” Miners’ Comfort. “Dis am a Free Kentry, Massa.” Coasting in Idaho. Law and Order Triumph’s. Charley, the Female Stage Driver. Hank Monk in Time for Lunch. The Picket Guard. The Gambler’s Charity. The Road Agent Outwitted. From Fry-pan to the Fire. A Newcomer. Force of Habit. The Deserted Camp. Syd’s Last Prospect. Skunked. Ruined Castles. Meeting of the Old-timers. An Unexpected Festival. The Gold-saving Machine. Tex Gives Satisfaction. Not Raising Mutiny but Sugar. It’l Be Our Turn Next. Bob the Fiddler. The Power of Music. Old-timers in the Hall. Phantoms of the Old timers. Sam Plunket and the Indians. The Bear in a Quandary. The Power of Beauty. The Bean-pot Comet. Dick Arnold to the Rescue. The Brave Policeman. A New Motor. The Plum-duff. Donkey Instinct. Tex and the Alcalde.$1’49 Mosquitoes. The Bear and the Prospector. Sharpshooters. Discovery of the Old River Beds. Lost in the Mountains. Nature’s Lullaby. Discovery of Red Hill Gold. Bob Lost a Fortune. The Surprise. Curiosity Satisfied. Mining Ground Transformed. “Is it Me Agint?” “No More Frontier in Ourn!” Not that Kind of Bird. The Tarantula in the Boot. The Boston Boy and His Bugle. Found His Brother. Kanakas at Work. The Flight of Time. The Miller Taking Toll. Yank Revisiting Old Scenes. Coasting in Idaho. Town of Wallace. A Flush Hand. The Mississippians. The Return East. “Good Morning, William.”