Chapter I: Part II: Across the Plains

NOTES BY THE WAY TO COUNCIL BLUFFS 93
THE EMIGRANT TRAIN 107
THE PLAINS OF NEBRASKA 115
THE DESERT OF WYOMING 119
FELLOW PASSENGERS 124
DESPISED RACES 129
TO THE GOLDEN GATES 133

THE OLD AND NEW PACIFIC CAPITALS

I. MONTEREY 141
II. SAN FRANCISCO 159

THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS

THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS 173
IN THE VALLEY:
I. CALISTOGA 179
II. THE PETRIFIED FOREST 184
III. NAPA WINE 188
IV. THE SCOT ABROAD 194
WITH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL:
I. TO INTRODUCE MR. KELMAR 201
II. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF SILVERADO 205
III. THE RETURN 215
THE ACT OF SQUATTING 221
THE HUNTER'S FAMILY 230
THE SEA-FOGS 239
THE TOLL HOUSE 245
A STARRY DRIVE 250
EPISODES IN THE STORY OF A MINE 254
TOILS AND PLEASURES 264

"VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE" AND OTHER PAPERS

I. "VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE":
I. 281
II. 292
III. ON FALLING IN LOVE 302
IV. TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE 311
II. CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH 321
III. AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS 334
IV. ORDERED SOUTH 345
V. AES TRIPLEX 358
VI. EL DORADO 368
VII. THE ENGLISH ADMIRALS 372
VIII. SOME PORTRAITS BY RAEBURN 385
IX. CHILD'S PLAY 394
X. WALKING TOURS 406
XI. PAN'S PIPES 415
XII. A PLEA FOR GAS LAMPS 420

THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT

_TO
ROBERT ALAN MOWBRAY STEVENSON_

_Our friendship was not only founded before we were born by a community of blood, but is in itself near as old as my life. It began with our early ages, and, like a history, has been continued to the present time. Although we may not be old in the world, we are old to each other, having so long been intimates. We are now widely separated, a great sea and continent intervening; but memory, like care, mounts into iron ships and rides post behind the horseman. Neither time nor space nor enmity can conquer old affection; and as I dedicate these sketches, it is not to you only, but to all in the old country, that I send the greeting of my heart._

1879. _R. L. S._