x Illustrations 



FACING PAGE 



George Wilkes 156 



Electioneer 156 



Miss Russell 232 



Green Mountain Maid 232 



Axtell 270 



Arion 270 



P. P. Johnston 286 



William Russell Allen 286 



W. P. Ijams 286 



J. Malcolm Forbes 290 



John E. Thayer 290 



Lawrence Kip ......... 290 



Robert Bonner 296 



William H. Vanderbilt 296 



Mambrino Patchen 306 



Baron Wilkes 306 



Star Pointer 312 



John R. Gentry 312 



Joe Patchen 320 



Brown Hal 320 



Charles Backman 324 



Benjamin F. Tracy 324 



William C. Whitney 324 



C. J. Hamlin 326 



Leland Stanford 326 



