CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XV— Page 



Judge Lynch 139 



CHAPTER XVI— 



Mining Experience 145 



CHAPTER XVH— 



Battle Over Land Claims 150 



CHAPTER XVIH— 



Captain Sutter — The Gold Discovery 157 



CHAPTER XIX— 



Floods and Fires 167 



CHAPTER XX— 



Foes, Fruits and Progress 174 



CHAPTER XXI— 



Legends and Early History 194 



CHAPTER XXII— 



Later History 208 



CHAPTER XXIII— 



The State 231 



CHAPTER XXIV— 



Remarkable Adventures and Heroism of California 

 Pioneers, a Quarter of a Century Before the 



Discovery of Gold 237 



CHAPTER XXV— 



The Daring Adventures of Bill Bent and Other 

 Historic Characters in New Mexico and Cali- 

 fornia 249 



CHAPTER XXVI— 



Additional Personal Narrative 268 



CHAPTER XXVII— 



An Account of the Suflferiugs of a Party of Argonauts 

 who were'compelled to Abandon their Vessel "The 

 Dolphin" on the Peninsula of Lower California, 

 and make their Way on Foot to San Diego 299 



