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| Introduction | |
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| In the Beginning . . . | |
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| New Mexico's Mystery Stone | |
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| The Message in the Bottle | |
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| Drake's Brass Plaque | |
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| The Real Manila Galleon | |
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| The Long Way Home | |
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| The Stone Thoen Found | |
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| Boulders Taller than the Great Tower of Seville | |
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| "The Most Sublime Spectacle on Earth" | |
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| Fifty Leagues of Silver | |
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| Captain Jose Zuniga's Report | |
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| Are We Prisoners of War? | |
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| The Russians in California | |
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| The Original Westerners | |
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| Ishi, The Last One Left Alive | |
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| The Man Who Killed the Deer | |
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| The Pacifist Warrior | |
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| The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
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| Colter's Run | |
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| "Can You Blot Out Those Stars?" | |
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| "I Will Fight No More Forever" | |
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| The Navajos | |
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| The Murder of Narbona | |
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| Barboncito's Plea | |
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| The Hogan | |
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| Laughing Boy | |
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| The Death of Old Man Hat | |
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| The Hispanos | |
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| The Muleteers | |
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| Brothers of the Light | |
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| Blessing the Animals | |
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| Ramona | |
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| A Santa Fe Fandango | |
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| Frontier Life | |
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| The Burning Bush | |
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| A Twenty-Dollar Christmas Ball | |
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| Christmas in Round Valley | |
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| "A Rather Pretentious Sod House" | |
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| "Quite Discouraged and Impatient for His Death . . ." | |
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| The Bashful Trapper | |
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| "And the Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day" | |
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| The $175,000 Sack of Flour | |
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| How Americans Get Ahead | |
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| J. C. Penney's First Day | |
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| Wolf Willow | |
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| The Melting Pot | |
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| Basques in Nevada | |
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| Nails and Whiskey | |
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| Death Valley Scotty's Story | |
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| Burial Customs at Fort Pierre | |
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| Cowboys | |
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| The Harvard Cowboy | |
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| The Spree at the End of the Trail | |
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| Charlie Siringo's Flirtation | |
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| "I Threw My Timid Friend a Bisquit" | |
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| The Cowboy Strike | |
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| The First Rodeos | |
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| The Chuck Wagon | |
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| When You Call Me That, Smile! | |
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| Tall Tales and Practical Jokes | |
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| The Travelling Stones, and Other Such Affairs | |
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| The First Jumping Frog | |
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| How Trout Survive Mountain Winters | |
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| "I Am Not Aware That Anyone Has Been Born Lately" | |
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| I Paint the Truth Just as It Is | |
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| The Buffalo Corral and Milking Pen | |
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| The Greasewood Golf Course | |
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| The Badger Fight | |
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| "Anything That Will Make Money" | |
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| Characters | |
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| "Genial If Rambunctious" | |
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| How the Ski Came to Snow Country | |
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| The Emperor of California | |
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| Schlatter the Healer | |
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| Law West of the Pecos | |
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| How Phoenix Got Its Name | |
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| Uncle Dick Wootton | |
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| Culture Comes to Virginia City | |
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| The Mines | |
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| Gold Only Waiting to Be Gathered Up | |
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| "Something Shining in the Bottom of the Ditch" | |
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| "Men Living Like Coyotes" | |
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| Sutro's Tunnel | |
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| Growing Up in Bonanza Town | |
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| Boyhood at the Chloride Flat | |
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| The Sun River Stampede | |
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| The Post-Hole Banks | |
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| There's Gems in Them Thar Hills | |
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| Women | |
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| "A Pretty Hoorah Place" | |
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| Now the Prairie Life Begins! | |
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| The Pregnant Private | |
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| Great Western, the Army's Amazon | |
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| Doing the Washing | |
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| "A Ball Put in Your Carcass" | |
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| Rags to Riches to Rags | |
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| And from Rags to Riches to Starvation | |
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| Biscuits, Coffee and Beans | |
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| Greasy Meals, Infested with Lazy Flies | |
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| Contempt of Court | |
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| Goldfield Booms | |
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| Law and Disorder | |
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| Missed Four Thousand Times | |
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| The Marquis de Peralta | |
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| "It Began with Wrong and Outrage" | |
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| The Real Billy the Kid | |
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| Billy's Alive, and So Is Jesse | |
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| That Famous Shootout at the O.K. Corral | |
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| The Soldier of Fortune | |
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| "No Complaint Was Made Against Him" | |
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| Taking Politics Seriously | |
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| The Hanging Windmill | |
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| More Action at Hanging Windmill | |
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| The Johnson County War | |
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| Travel | |
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| Over the Oregon Trail | |
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| Thus the First Mail Was Brought on Camels | |
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| Aubry's Great Ride | |
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| "Without Any Thing to Eat but the Dead" | |
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| "Goodbye, Death Valley" | |
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| "Fifteen-Hundred Hats Were Lost Yearly" | |
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| The Great Wagon-Train Swindle | |
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| Horace Greeley's Wild Ride | |
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| What the Travel Agent Doesn't Tell You | |
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| Cold Feet | |
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| A Revolver Is an Admirable Tool . . . | |
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| The Desert Traveler's Kit | |
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| How Exquisitely Pleasant, How Cosy and Delightful! | |
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| The Race for Raton Pass | |
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| The Continent Is Joined | |
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| They Do Not Drink, Fight, or Strike | |
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| The Rawhide Railroad | |
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| 185 Miles in Fifteen Hours and Twenty Minutes | |
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| Finally, Behind the Wheel! | |
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| Steinbeck's Highway 66 | |
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| The Military | |
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| The Last Word from the Alamo | |
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| The Mormon Battalion | |
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| "We Have Come Amongst You" | |
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| Paddy Graydon's Civil War | |
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| Custer's Last Letter Home | |
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| Mrs. Custer Hears the News | |
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| The Western Way with Words | |
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| "Jose Maria Martin! Stand Up!" | |
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| "Stand Up, Ye Son-of-a-Bitch" | |
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| Why Wilderness? | |
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| "The Dirty Nincompoop Who Edits That Journal" | |
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| "To The World!!" | |
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| "I Ask: What Is Life?" | |
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| Fiction | |
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| The Rules of the Game | |
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| The Outcasts of Poker Flat | |
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| The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky | |
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| Cabin Fever | |
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| Honey in the Horn | |
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| "It Must Be Something Exciting" | |
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| McTeague | |
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