PREFACE.
In the book I now lay before the reader, I have collected a series of stories and sketches of journeyings through California, Arizona, and New Mexico. There is little of fiction, even in the stories; and the sketches, I flatter myself, are true to life—as I saw it, at the time I visited the places.
A number of these stories first appeared in the Overland Monthly, but some of them are new, and have never been published. I bespeak for them all the attentive perusal and undivided interest of the kind reader.
The Author.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| LA GRACIOSA, | [13] |
| JUANITA, | [53] |
| HETTY'S HEROISM, | [68] |
| A WOMAN'S TREACHERY, | [87] |
| THE GENTLEMAN FROM SISKIYOU, | [101] |
| SOMETHING ABOUT MY PETS, | [119] |
| POKER-JIM, | [137] |
| THE TRAGEDY AT MOHAWK STATION, | [153] |
| LONE LINDEN, | [161] |
| MANUELA, | [188] |
| THE ROMANCE OF GILA BEND, | [204] |
| A LADY IN CAMP, | [219] |
| THE GOLDEN LAMB, | [237] |
| IT OCCURRED AT TUCSON, | [260] |
| A BIT OF "EARLY CALIFORNIA", | [274] |
| HER NAME WAS SYLVIA, | [282] |
| CROSSING THE ARIZONA DESERTS, | [296] |
| DOWN AMONG THE DEAD LETTERS, | [310] |
| MARCHING WITH A COMMAND, | [321] |
| TO TEXAS, AND BY THE WAY, | [354] |
| MY FIRST EXPERIENCE IN NEW MEXICO, | [367] |