CONTENTS

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I.It Can’t Be Done—But Then, It Is Perfectly Simple[1]
II.Albany, First Stop[15]
III.A Breakdown[18]
IV.Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana[23]
V.Luggage and Other Luxuries[37]
VI.Did Anybody Say “Chicken”?[41]
VII.The City of Ambition[46]
VIII.A Few Chicagoans[52]
IX.Tins[60]
X.Mud!![67]
XI.In Rochelle[72]
XII.The Weight of Public Opinion[75]
XIII.Muddier![79]
XIV.One of the Fogged Impressions[86]
XV.A Few Ways of the West[90]
XVI.Halfway House[99]
XVII.Next Stop, North Platte![107]
XVIII.The City of Recklessness[119]
XIX.A Glimpse of the West That Was[135]
XX.Our Little Sister of Yesterday[150]
XXI.Ignorance With a Capital I[155]
XXII.Some Indians and Mr. X[159]
XXIII.With Nowhere to Go But Out[172]
XXIV.Into the Desert[175]
XXV.Through the City Unpronounceable to an Exposition Beautiful[187]
XXVI.The Land of Gladness[198]
XXVII.The Mettle of a Hero[205]
XXVIII.San Francisco[211]
XXIX.The Fair[229]
XXX.“Unending Sameness” Was What They Said[237]
XXXI.To Those Who Think of Following in Our Tire Tracks—To the Man Who Drives[241]
XXXII.On the Subject of Clothes—Food Equipment—Expenses—Daily Expense Account[251]
XXXIII.How Far Can You Go in Comfort?—Some Day[278]