Chapter I: Front Matter

_THE WHITE CROSS LIBRARY._

PRENTICE MULFORD’S STORY

_Life by Land and Sea._

BY
PRENTICE MULFORD.

NEW YORK:
F. J. NEEDHAM, PUBLISHER,
52 WEST FOURTEENTH ST.
1889.

COPYRIGHT, 1889
BY F. J. NEEDHAM.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Shadows of Coming Events, 5

II. Going to Sea, 14

III. Getting My Sea Legs On, 20

IV. Much Water and Mutiny, 31

V. San Francisco in 1856, 43

VI. As a Sea Cook, 51

VII. Sights while Cooking, 61

VIII. Whaling in Marguerita Bay, 71

IX. Our Butter Fiends, 82

X. Guadalupe, 86

XI. At the Gold Mines, 90

XII. Swett’s Bar, 99

XIII. One Day’s Digging, 105

XIV. The Miner’s Rainy Day, 114

XV. The Miner’s Sunday, 122

XVI. The Cow Fever, 129

XVII. Red Mountain Bar, 135

XVIII. My California School, 145

XIX. “Jimtown,” 157

XX. Romance of Ah Sam and Hi Sing, 168

XXI. On a Jury, 174

XXII. Some Culinary Reminiscences, 178

XXIII. The Copper Fever, 186

XXIV. Rise and Fall of Copperhead City, 193

XXV. Prospecting, 199

XXVI. High Life, 207

XXVII. Leaving High Life, 217

XXVIII. The Last of High Life, 226

XXIX. On the Rostrum, 237

XXX. Running for Office, 246

XXXI. An Early California Canvass, 254

XXXII. Another Change, 262

XXXIII. Editing vs. Writing, 266

XXXIV. Opinions Journalistic, 275

XXXV. Recent Antiquity, 279

XXXVI. Going Home, 287

PRENTICE MULFORD’S STORY.