CONTENTS

[I Yerba Buena.]
[II The Gambled Patrimony.]
[III The Gringo Ships.]
[IV American Occupation.]
[V An Offer and a Threat.]
[VI The First Election.]
[VII The Rancheros Revolt.]
[VIII McTurpin's Coup.]
[IX The Elopement.]
[X Hull "Capitulates".]
[XI San Francisco is Named.]
[XII The New York Volunteers.]
[XIII The "Sydney Ducks".]
[XIV The Auction on the Beach.]
[XV The Beginning of Law.]
[XVI Gold! Gold! Gold!]
[XVII The Quest of Fortune.]
[XVIII News of Benito.]
[XIX The Veiled Woman.]
[XX A Call in the Night.]
[XXI Outfacing the Enemy.]
[XXII Shots in the Dark.]
[XXIII The New Arrival.]
[XXIV The Chaos of '49.]
[XXV Retrieving a Birthright.]
[XXVI Fire! Fire! Fire!]
[XXVII Politics and a Warning.]
[XXVIII On the Trail of McTurpin.]
[XXIX The Squatter Conspiracy.]
[XXX "Growing Pains".]
[XXXI The Vigilance Committee.]
[XXXII The People's Jury.]
[XXXIII The Reckoning.]
[XXXIV The Hanging of Jenkins.]
[XXXV The People and the Law.]
[XXXVI Fevers of Finance.]
[XXXVII "Give Us Our Savings".]
[XXXVIII King Starts the Bulletin.]
[XXXIX Richardson and Cora.]
[XL The Storm Gathers.]
[XLI The Fateful Encounter.]
[XLII The Committee Organizes.]
[XLIII Governor Johnson Mediates.]
[XLIV The Truce is Broken.]
[XLV The Committee Strikes.]
[XLVI Retribution.]
[XLVII Hints of Civil War.]
[XLVIII Sherman Resigns.]
[XLIX Terry Stabs Hopkins.]
[L The Committee Disbands.]
[LI Senator Broderick.]
[LII A Trip to Chinatown.]
[LIII Enter Po Lun.]
[LIV The "Field of Honor".]
[LV The Southern Plot.]
[LVI Some War Reactions.]
[LVII Waters Pays the Price.]
[LVIII McTurpin Turns Informer.]
[LIX The Comstock Furore.]
[LX The Shattered Bubble.]
[LXI Desperate Finance.]
[LXII Adolph Sutro's Tunnel.]
[LXIII Lees Solves a Mystery.]
[LXIV An Idol Topples.]
[LXV Industrial Unrest.]
[LXVI The Pick-Handle Parade.]
[LXVII Dennis Kearney.]
[LXVIII The Woman Reporter.]
[LXIX A New Generation.]
[LXX Robert and Maizie.]
[LXXI The Blind Boss.]
[LXXII Fate Takes a Hand.]
[LXXIII The Return.]
[LXXIV The "Reformer".]
[LXXV A Nocturnal Adventure.]
[LXXVI Politics and Romance.]
[LXXVII Aleta's Problem.]
[LXXVIII The Fateful Morn.]
[LXXIX The Turmoil.]
[LXXX Aftermath.]
[LXXXI Readjustment.]
[LXXXII At Bay.]
[LXXXIII In the Toils.]
[LXXXIV The Net Closes.]
[LXXXV The Seven Plagues.]
[LXXXVI A New City Government.]
[LXXXVII Norah Finds Out.]
[LXXXVIII The Shooting of Heney.]
[LXXXIX Defeat of the Prosecution.]
[XC The Measure of Redemption.]
[XCI Conclusion.]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[As they looked, the sunlight triumphed, scattering the fog into queer, floating shapes, luminous and fraught with weird suggestions.... One might have thought a splendid city lay before them, ... impalpable, yet triumphant, with its hint of destiny. Frontispiece.]

["Ah, Senor," Inez' smile had faded, ... "they have cause for hatred".]

[Men with shovels, leveling the sand-hills, piled the wagons high with shimmering grains which were ... dumped into pile-surrounded bogs. San Francisco reached farther and farther out into the bay.]

[Samuel Brannan rode through the streets, holding a pint flask of gold-dust in one hand ... and whooping like a madman: "Gold! Gold! Gold! From the American River".]

[Passersby who laughed at the inscription witnessed simultaneously the rescue of an almost submerged donkey by means of an improvised derrick.]