Introduction | |
In the Beginning . . . | p. 1 |
New Mexico's Mystery Stone | p. 3 |
The Message in the Bottle | p. 6 |
Drake's Brass Plaque | p. 8 |
The Real Manila Galleon | p. 11 |
The Long Way Home | p. 14 |
The Stone Thoen Found | p. 16 |
Boulders Taller than the Great Tower of Seville | p. 19 |
"The Most Sublime Spectacle on Earth" | p. 21 |
Fifty Leagues of Silver | p. 25 |
Captain Jose Zuniga's Report | p. 27 |
Are We Prisoners of War? | p. 29 |
The Russians in California | p. 31 |
The Original Westerners | p. 35 |
Ishi, The Last One Left Alive | p. 37 |
The Man Who Killed the Deer | p. 43 |
The Pacifist Warrior | p. 47 |
The Way to Rainy Mountain | p. 51 |
Colter's Run | p. 57 |
"Can You Blot Out Those Stars?" | p. 61 |
"I Will Fight No More Forever" | p. 63 |
The Navajos | p. 65 |
The Murder of Narbona | p. 67 |
Barboncito's Plea | p. 73 |
The Hogan | p. 82 |
Laughing Boy | p. 84 |
The Death of Old Man Hat | p. 89 |
The Hispanos | p. 93 |
The Muleteers | p. 95 |
Brothers of the Light | p. 97 |
Blessing the Animals | p. 103 |
Ramona | p. 106 |
A Santa Fe Fandango | p. 112 |
Frontier Life | p. 117 |
The Burning Bush | p. 119 |
A Twenty-Dollar Christmas Ball | p. 121 |
Christmas in Round Valley | p. 123 |
"A Rather Pretentious Sod House" | p. 125 |
"Quite Discouraged and Impatient for His Death . . ." | p. 128 |
The Bashful Trapper | p. 132 |
"And the Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day" | p. 134 |
The $175,000 Sack of Flour | p. 138 |
How Americans Get Ahead | p. 140 |
J. C. Penney's First Day | p. 142 |
Wolf Willow | p. 144 |
The Melting Pot | p. 147 |
Basques in Nevada | p. 149 |
Nails and Whiskey | p. 153 |
Death Valley Scotty's Story | p. 155 |
Burial Customs at Fort Pierre | p. 159 |
Cowboys | p. 163 |
The Harvard Cowboy | p. 165 |
The Spree at the End of the Trail | p. 169 |
Charlie Siringo's Flirtation | p. 171 |
"I Threw My Timid Friend a Bisquit" | p. 176 |
The Cowboy Strike | p. 178 |
The First Rodeos | p. 180 |
The Chuck Wagon | p. 183 |
When You Call Me That, Smile! | p. 185 |
Tall Tales and Practical Jokes | p. 189 |
The Travelling Stones, and Other Such Affairs | p. 191 |
The First Jumping Frog | p. 195 |
How Trout Survive Mountain Winters | p. 197 |
"I Am Not Aware That Anyone Has Been Born Lately" | p. 200 |
I Paint the Truth Just as It Is | p. 202 |
The Buffalo Corral and Milking Pen | p. 204 |
The Greasewood Golf Course | p. 207 |
The Badger Fight | p. 210 |
"Anything That Will Make Money" | p. 213 |
Characters | p. 217 |
"Genial If Rambunctious" | p. 219 |
How the Ski Came to Snow Country | p. 224 |
The Emperor of California | p. 226 |
Schlatter the Healer | p. 228 |
Law West of the Pecos | p. 231 |
How Phoenix Got Its Name | p. 236 |
Uncle Dick Wootton | p. 241 |
Culture Comes to Virginia City | p. 245 |
The Mines | p. 251 |
Gold Only Waiting to Be Gathered Up | p. 253 |
"Something Shining in the Bottom of the Ditch" | p. 261 |
"Men Living Like Coyotes" | p. 265 |
Sutro's Tunnel | p. 267 |
Growing Up in Bonanza Town | p. 271 |
Boyhood at the Chloride Flat | p. 279 |
The Sun River Stampede | p. 283 |
The Post-Hole Banks | p. 286 |
There's Gems in Them Thar Hills | p. 289 |
Women | p. 293 |
"A Pretty Hoorah Place" | p. 295 |
Now the Prairie Life Begins! | p. 302 |
The Pregnant Private | p. 304 |
Great Western, the Army's Amazon | p. 306 |
Doing the Washing | p. 310 |
"A Ball Put in Your Carcass" | p. 312 |
Rags to Riches to Rags | p. 314 |
And from Rags to Riches to Starvation | p. 316 |
Biscuits, Coffee and Beans | p. 320 |
Greasy Meals, Infested with Lazy Flies | p. 323 |
Contempt of Court | p. 325 |
Goldfield Booms | p. 328 |
Law and Disorder | p. 333 |
Missed Four Thousand Times | p. 335 |
The Marquis de Peralta | p. 339 |
"It Began with Wrong and Outrage" | p. 343 |
The Real Billy the Kid | p. 346 |
Billy's Alive, and So Is Jesse | p. 349 |
That Famous Shootout at the O.K. Corral | p. 351 |
The Soldier of Fortune | p. 354 |
"No Complaint Was Made Against Him" | p. 356 |
Taking Politics Seriously | p. 358 |
The Hanging Windmill | p. 360 |
More Action at Hanging Windmill | p. 363 |
The Johnson County War | p. 365 |
Travel | p. 367 |
Over the Oregon Trail | p. 369 |
Thus the First Mail Was Brought on Camels | p. 373 |
Aubry's Great Ride | p. 375 |
"Without Any Thing to Eat but the Dead" | p. 379 |
"Goodbye, Death Valley" | p. 385 |
"Fifteen-Hundred Hats Were Lost Yearly" | p. 391 |
The Great Wagon-Train Swindle | p. 394 |
Horace Greeley's Wild Ride | p. 398 |
What the Travel Agent Doesn't Tell You | p. 401 |
Cold Feet | p. 407 |
A Revolver Is an Admirable Tool . . . | p. 409 |
The Desert Traveler's Kit | p. 414 |
How Exquisitely Pleasant, How Cosy and Delightful! | p. 416 |
The Race for Raton Pass | p. 420 |
The Continent Is Joined | p. 423 |
They Do Not Drink, Fight, or Strike | p. 425 |
The Rawhide Railroad | p. 427 |
185 Miles in Fifteen Hours and Twenty Minutes | p. 432 |
Finally, Behind the Wheel! | p. 436 |
Steinbeck's Highway 66 | p. 439 |
The Military | p. 443 |
The Last Word from the Alamo | p. 445 |
The Mormon Battalion | p. 447 |
"We Have Come Amongst You" | p. 451 |
Paddy Graydon's Civil War | p. 453 |
Custer's Last Letter Home | p. 455 |
Mrs. Custer Hears the News | p. 457 |
The Western Way with Words | p. 459 |
"Jose Maria Martin! Stand Up!" | p. 461 |
"Stand Up, Ye Son-of-a-Bitch" | p. 463 |
Why Wilderness? | p. 466 |
"The Dirty Nincompoop Who Edits That Journal" | p. 470 |
"To The World!!" | p. 474 |
"I Ask: What Is Life?" | p. 475 |
Fiction | p. 481 |
The Rules of the Game | p. 483 |
The Outcasts of Poker Flat | p. 486 |
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky | p. 496 |
Cabin Fever | p. 506 |
Honey in the Horn | p. 509 |
"It Must Be Something Exciting" | p. 516 |
McTeague | p. 522 |
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