Chapter I: Front Matter

Start from Dayton--Coal-Mine--Indianapolis--Illinois Roads--Springfield--Crops--Poor Water--Missouri River--Enter Iowa--Enter Missouri--Kansas City--Des Moines Valley and City--Western Iowa--Fourth of July at Lewis--Council Bluffs 17

CHAPTER II.

Omaha--Homestead Land--Coming Onto the Plains--Cold Winds--Platte Valley--Republican Forks--Fort Wallace--Big Sandy--Old Battle-Ground--Arkansas Valley--Irrigation Farming 41

CHAPTER III.

Arrival of Lesher and Wonderly--Our Start South--First Buffalo Herd--Cimaron River--Strayed Team--Old Hunters--How to Hunt Buffaloes--Wolf Hunt--Prairie Fire--Herd at Ten-Mile Creek--Blizzard--Find a Frozen Man--Hide Season Ends 73

CHAPTER IV.

Summer Trip Through the South--Indian Agencies--Canadian River--Lion Fight--Red River--Double Mountain--Staked Plains--Pecos River--Indian Skirmish--Santa Fe, New Mexico--Return to the Arkansas Valley--Description of the Plains--Mirage--Dangers of the Prairie--Wild Horses and How Captured--Creasing Animals 128

CHAPTER V.

Cattle-Business Explained--Branding Stock--Round-Up--Mavorick--Beef-Gathering--Stampedes--Tender-Feet--Stock-Raising in Texas--Cattle-Trail--Buying Cattle from Trail--How to Enter Stock Business--Sheep-Raising--Greasers--Texas Cattle-Fever 168

CHAPTER VI.

Cow-Boy History--Mustangs and Broncos--Cow-Boys with Six-Shooters--Dodge City--Boot Grave-yard--Prairie Mysteries--Dance-Halls--Sketch of Buffalo Bill--Theory of the Plains--Trading-House--Antelope Chase--We Prepare for a Mountain Tour 201

PART II.

CHAPTER I.

We Start for the Mountains--Las Animas--Pueblo--Colorado Springs--Manitou--Mineral Springs--We Ascend Pike’s Peak--Balancing Rock--Garden of the Gods--Devil’s Hole--Return to Manitou 241

CHAPTER II.

Start for South Park--Ute Pass--Rainbow Falls--South Park--Bear Fight--Leadville--Sallie Ray--Chimney Gulch--Trout-Fishing--Denver--Cheyenne--Black Bitter Creek--Antelope Springs--Wolf Adventure--Green River--Old Emigrant Road--Echo Canon--Utah--Park City--Ontario Mine--Quartz-Mill--Kinds of Mines--Prospecting--Start for Salt Lake 274

CHAPTER III.

View of Salt Lake Valley and City--Tabernacle--History of the Mormons--Joe Smith--Came to Kirtland, Ohio--Brigham Young Converted--Located at Independence, Missouri--Located at Nauvoo, Illinois--Joe and Hiram Smith Killed--Emigrated to Council Bluffs--Came to Salt Lake--Trouble with the Government--Mormon Theology 329

CHAPTER IV.

We Leave Salt Lake--Reach the Sierra Nevada Slopes--Tunnels, Gorges, etc.--Reach California--Sacramento--San Francisco--Hotel Runners--Fruits--Palace Hotel--Chinese--Dennis Kearney and Party--De Young-Kalloch Tragedy--Chinese Bakers--California Climate--Ships--Golden Gate--Woodward Garden--Portland, Oregon--Washington Territory--Sail for Santa Barbara and Los Angeles--Prescott, Arizona--Meet General Fremont--Big Trees--Return to Ohio 356