Chapter XXVI: Prescott to Los Angelos

Off for Los Angelos.--Williamson's Valley.--Wild
Game.--Juniper Mountain.--Rock Springs.--Cottonwood
Cañon.--Beale's Springs.--A Desolate Country.--Sage-brush
and Grease-wood.--Want of Water.--Indians
again.--Sublime Scenery.--Union Pass.--Rio Colorado
again.--Mojave Indians.--Our Indian Policy then.--Fort
Mojave.--A Rude Post.--A Pittsburg Lady "Roughing
it" there.--Hardyville--Adjacent Mines.--Mr. Hardy
himself.--Costly Transportation the Great Drawback to
Arizona.--The Colorado should be Utilized.--Beaver Lake.--A
Desert Country again.--Changes of Elevation.--Heat and
Rattlesnakes.--Interesting Bed-fellows.--Pai-Ute Hill--A
Break-down.--Camp Rock Springs.--Our Frontier Posts
generally.--Soda Lake.--A Weary and Anxious Sunday.--An
Indian Scare.--Mojave River.--Strange Anomalies in Arizona
and Southern California.--A Dismal Ranchman.--Camp
Cady.--Cajon Pass.--San Bernardino.--The Los Angelos Plains
again.--"Out of the Wilderness."--Back to 'Frisco by Sea.
409-424

CHAPTER XXVII.

_San Francisco to Virginia City._

Off for Sacramento.--Fellow-passengers.--Children.--Sacramento
River.--Sacramento City.--Thence by Railroad.--Country
generally.--The Wheat Fields and Live Oaks.--The
Foot-hills.--Placer Mining.--Water-ditches.--Hydraulic
Mining.--Changes in Climate.--Central Pacific
Railroad.--Cisco.--The Sierra Nevadas.--Deep Snows still, May
17th.--Snow-sheds.--John Chinaman again.--Donner Lake.--The
Truckee.--The Geiger Grade.--Sunday in Nevada.--A Noted
Revivalist.--Virginia City.--The Comstock Lode.--Silver
Mining generally.--The Sutro Tunnel.--Mining a Risky
Business. 425-436

CHAPTER XXVIII.

_Virginia City to Stockton._

Return by Placerville.--Carson City.--Carson River and
Valley.--The Sierras again.--Mountain Turnpikes.--A Rough
Night's Travel.--Crossing the Summit.--An Ambitious
Mother and her Florence Mary.--A Morning Ride.--Lake
Tahoe.--Splendid Stage-driving.--Placerville.--Sacramento
City again.--California's Wealth of Roses, etc.--Country to
Stockton.--Live Oaks.--Wheat-fields.--Vineyards.--Flocks and
Herds.--Wind-mills.--Stockton itself. 437-442

CHAPTER XXIX.

_Stockton to the Yosemite._

Off for the Yo-sem-i-te.--Wheat-fields again.--The Stanislaus
and Tuolomne.--The Coast Range.--Coulterville.--A
Horseback Ride.--Mustang Pony.--My Guide.--Bower
Cave.--"Black's."--A Romantic Trail.--Up and Over the
Sierras.--Floundering through the Snows.--First View of the
Yosemite.--Fording Mountain Torrents.--Descent into the
Valley.--"Hutchings'."--A Ramble through the Yosemite.--A
Fissure in the Sierras.--Its Lofty Walls.--Snowbanks
above; Strawberries below.--Waterfalls.--Bridal Veil
Fall.--El Capitan.--Yosemite Fall.--Merced River.--The Lake
and Domes.--South Fork.--Prof. Whitney and Party.--The
Cascades.--Vernal Fall.--Rainbows.--Nevada Fall.--Mt.
Broderick.--Sentinel Peak.--Cathedral Rocks.--The Valley
generally. 443-455

CHAPTER XXX.

_The Yosemite to San Francisco._

Prof. Whitney again.--The Mariposa Trail.--Inspiration
Point.--A Sublime View.--The Hermitage.--The Snow
again.--A Grizzly Bear and Cubs.--The Sugar Pines.--The
South Merced.--"Clerk's."--Galen Clark himself.--Mariposa
Big Trees.--Grizzly Giant, etc.--The Species
generally.--California's Duty.--Mariposa.--A Sleepy
Town.--Honitos.--Bear Valley.--The Coast Range and Mt.
Diabolo.--Stockton again.--Back to San Francisco. 456-465

CHAPTER XXXI.

_San Francisco to New York._

Ride to San Josè.--Off for New York.--The Weather.--Delightful
Voyaging.--The Constitution.--Fellow-passengers.--Cape
St. Lucas.--Manzanillo.--Acapulco.--A Mexican
Seaport.--"Greasers."--Good Divers.--Sights Ashore.--The
Cathedral.--The Old Spanish Fort.--Off for Panama.--Panama
itself.--Location.--Business and People.--Railroad to
Aspinwall.--Breakdown in a Jungle.--Tropical Scenery.--The
Railroad itself.--The Natives.--Aspinwall.--The Rising
Star.--New Passengers.--Caribbean Sea.--Cuba.--Gulf
Stream.--Sandy Hook.--Home again.--"Adios." 466-477

APPENDIX 481-492

INDEX 493

ACROSS AMERICA;

OR,

THE GREAT WEST AND THE PACIFIC COAST.