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• Physical Description: 2 volumes in 1. : frontispiece, plates. ; 21 cm
• Publisher: New York : Harper, [1913]

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V. II I become city editor -- Boggs gluts his ire -- Mines not worth their "salt" -- Our gold-bearing flour-sack -- A Sixty-thousand-dollar horse -- Scotty Briggs and the parson -- Six-fingered Pete and the other "killers" -- The Official city desperado -- The Right way to deal with pirates -- A fearful and wonderful novel -- Bullion beyond belief -- Jim Blaine and his grandfather's ram -- The Gentle, inoffensive Chinese -- The Glorious flag on Davidson -- Glorious climate of California -- "Well, if it ain't a child!" -- What an earthquake does -- Blucher's banquet by proxy -- Pocket-mining -- The Prejudiced cat -- "Blanketing" the admiral -- Honolulu the beautiful -- Struggling with a horse -- Wiles of the horse-coupers -- Poi is not for every palate -- Playing at empire -- The End of great Kamehameha -- Fauna of the schooner "Boomerang" -- A Horrific letter from Greeley -- Captain Cook was rightly killed -- I guard the fair bathers -- Strange gigantic temple walls -- Kilauea, the pillar of fire -- Down into the crater -- My winning mule-trade -- Markiss, king of liars -- Lecturing, an unexpected success -- The Too practical joke -- Appendix A. Brief sketch of Mormon history -- Appendix B. The Mountain meadows massacre -- Appendix C. Concerning a frightful assassination that was never consummated.

V.I Prefatory -- Bound away for Nevada -- We leave the "States" -- The Jackass-rabbit -- A flash and a vanish -- Queer coach and queerer people -- The Gliding, elusive coyote -- Grand moguls of the stage route -- When the buffalo climbed a tree -- "Here he comes!" the pony-rider -- "Don't gentleman! I'm a dead man" -- Slade the terrible -- The Killer's pitiful ending -- Over the Great Divide -- Salt Lake City -- We meet the king -- Mormon husbands, generous altruists -- A Hundred and ten tin whistles -- The Drowsy Mormon Bible -- Big money and big prices -- The Deadly alkali desert -- Lo! the depraved Goshoots -- What Hank said to Horace Greeley -- A Washoe zephyr at play -- The Air the angels breathe -- We burn our possessions -- I ride a bucking horse -- Governing in adversity -- Mountains gorged with wealth -- We go for our share -- I find fool gold -- We join a beggar's revel -- The Carson in flood -- Trailing ourselves in snow -- We drift in oblivion -- Saved but sullen -- The Great landslide case -- Tunneling the air -- I loathe hard labor -- Shadowing rich dreams -- Wonders of Mono Lake -- "Mph! dam' stove heap gone!" -- A "Blind lead" -- to millions! -- When blind led blind.

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