CONTENTS. xvii 



their Captives— Herder Tortured at the Stake— Move toward 

 Black Hills— Escape from Guards — Pursued by the Arrapahoes — 

 Take Refuge in a Gulch— Reach a Cattle Ranch— Secure a 

 Mustang and Continue Journey 475 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



AMONG THE MORMONS. 

 Ride Across Utah — Chief Occupation of the People— Description of 

 Territory — Great Salt Lake — Mormon Settlements — Brigham 

 Young — Peculiar Views of the Latter Day Saints — " Celestial 

 Marriages " — Joseph Smith, the Founder of Mormonism — The Book 

 of Mormon — City of Ogden — Pioneer History — Peter Skeen Ogden 

 — Weber and Ogden Rivers — Heber C. Kimball — Echo Canyon- 

 Enterprise of the Mormons — Rapid Development of the Terri- 

 tory ... 491 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



OVER THE SIERRAS. 

 The Word Sierra — At Kelton, Utah — Ride to Terrace — Wells, 

 Nevada — The Sierra Nevada — Lake Tahoe — Silver Mines— Thb 

 Comstock Lode — Stock Raising — Camp Halleck — Humboldt River 

 — Mineral Springs — Reach Palisade — Reese River Mountain — 

 Golconda — Winnemucca — Lovelocks — Wadsworth — Cross Truckee 

 River — In California 507 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



ALONG THE SACRAMENTO. 

 Colfax — Auburn — Summit — Reach Sacramento — California Boun- 

 daries — Pacific Ocean — Coast Range Mountains — The Sacramento 

 Valley — Inhabitants of California — John A. Sutter — Sutter's Fort 

 — A Saw-mill — James Wilson Marshall — Discovery of Gold — 

 " Boys, I believe I have found a Gold Mine " — The Secret Out — First 

 Days of Sacramento — A "City of Tents " — Capital of California 514 



CHAPTER XXX. 



SAN FRANCISCO AND END OF JOURNEY. 

 Metropolis of the Pacific Coast— Largest Gold Fields in the World— 

 The Jesuits— Captain Sutter— Argonauts of " 49 "—Great Excite- 

 ment — Discovery of Upper California — Sir Francis Drake — John 

 P. Lease— The Founding of San Francisco— The "Golden Age" 

 —Story of Kit Carson— The Golden Gate — San Francisco Deserted 

 — The Cholera Plague— California Admitted to the Union— Cran- 

 dall's Stage — Wonderful Development of San Francisco— United 

 States Mint — Handsome Buildings — Trade with China, Japan, 

 India and Australia— Go Out to the Cliff House— Ride into the 

 Pacific— End of Journey • f^ *-.»,, 529 

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