I have just read "In the Early Days," by Col. G. L. Cole, and I find it an interesting and instructive narrative, clothed in good diction and pleasing style. Few of the Argonauts took time or trouble to make note of the events of their journey and our California gold episode is remarkably barren of literature, a fact which makes Col. Cole's book doubly interesting and valuable.
M. T. Cummings
CONTENTS.
| Chapter I.—Setting up Altars of Remembrance, | [13] |
| Chapter II.—"God Could Not Be Everywhere, and so He Made Mothers," | [23] |
| Chapter III.—"But Somewhere the Master Has a Counterpart of Each," | [32] |
| Chapter IV.—Our Prairies are a Book Whose Pages Hold Many Stories, | [41] |
| Chapter V.—A Worthy Object Reached For and Missed is a First Step Toward Success, | [51] |
| Chapter VI.—"'Tis Only a Snowbank's Tears, I Ween," | [58] |
| Chapter VII.—We Stepped Over the Ridge and Courted the Favor of New and Untried Waters, | [67] |
| Chapter VIII.—We Had No Flag to Unfurl, but Its Sentiment Was Within Us, | [77] |
| Chapter IX.—We Listened to Each Other's Rehearsals, and Became Mutual Sympathizers and Encouragers, | [87] |
| Chapter X.—Boots and Saddles Call, | [98] |
| Chapter XI.—"But All Comes Right in the End," | [108] |
| Chapter XII.—Each Day Makes Its Own Paragraphs and Punctuation Marks, | [123] |