Wilkes’ Survey of the Western Coast—Fremont’s Ascent of the Kansas—Encounter with Arapaho Warriors—Arrival at Fort Laramie—A threatening Letter—Fremont’s Reply—On the Sweet Water River—Discovery of Mountain Lake and Fremont’s Peak—A winged Messenger—Back to Fort Laramie—To the Rocky Mountains again—On the Banks of the Bear River—Discovery of the Great Salt Lake—Embarkation on the Lake—Sudden Change in the Character of its Waters—From the Salt Lake through the Great Basin to Fort Hall and thence to the Columbia River—Attempt to return Home by a New Route—Lost in the Wilderness—Discovery of Lake Tlamath—Search for an Opening in the Mountains—Discovery of Pyramid Lake—Meeting with Snake Indians—Hunger—Salmon discovered in a River flowing into the Lake—News of White Men on the South—All Hope of reaching United States abandoned—Fremont resolves to cross the Sierra Nevada—First Peak scaled—Meeting with Indians—A Gap in the Mountains discovered at last—Ascent of the Californian Mountain—Opening a Path through the Snow—A terrible Prophecy—Flight of Guide—First Sight of Seaboard Range of Mountains—Intense Excitement—Down the Eastern Slopes of the Californian Mountain to the Banks of the Sacramento—Arrival at Sutter’s Fort—Back to St. Louis by way of the South Pass—Fremont’s third and last Journey.
Early History of the Mormons—Murder of Smith—Expulsion from Illinois—Across the frozen Mississippi—Through the Wilderness—Summons to the War—Young Men sent to the Aid of the Republic—Arrival on the Shores of the Great Salt Lake—Building of Salt Lake City—Expedition of Stansbury—California ceded to the States—Discovery of Gold near Sutter’s Fort—World-wide Excitement—Rush of 30,000 Emigrants Westward—Terror of Indians at Approach of the White Men—Sufferings in the Mountains—Jealousy of Settlers—Prairies set on Fire—Survivors of the 30,000 rescued by White Men from California.
Cozens’ Start from Merilla—First Encounter with Apaches, and Murder of Laws—A Bear Hunt—To the Ruins of Le Gran [♦]Quivera—Two Mules stolen—Back again to Merilla—Cozens and Cochise, an Apache Chief—Cochise offers to act as Guide to the Encampment of his Warriors—The great Mirage known as Greenhorn’s Lake—A Chaos of Rocks and Precipices—Following an Indian Trail—Down the Ravine to the Apache Valley—First Sight of Apache Village with Huts built on truncated Mounds—Excitement among the Apaches—Cochise explains Cozens’ Presence—Eager Welcome—Arrival of Magnus Colorado, the great Scalper—Trying Interview between Magnus and Cozens—Eternal Friendship sworn—A blood-stained Baby’s Frock—Scalp Dance and its attendant Horrors—Back again to Mexico—Second and third Trips to the North—With Jim Davis the Emigrant’s Friend, to the Navajoe Country—Ascent of the Sierra Madre—Encounter with a Panther—In the Zuni Valley among the blue-eyed Indians—Ruins of Zuni—Encounter with Navajoes—Jim Davis’s Story—Re-capture of stolen Cattle—A fall of Three Hundred Feet—Marvelous Preservation of Cozens—Nursed by the Zunis—Murder of Stewart’s Family by Apaches—Escape of Stewart to Zuni—His Death of a broken Heart—Return of Cozens to Mexico.
[♦] ‘Quivara’ replaced with ‘Quivera’
Crisis in British America—Consolidation of its various Parts into one great Colony—Decay of the Hudson’s Bay Company—Establishment of an International Boundary Line—Journey of Palliser—Admission of British Columbia to the Dominion, and Conditions of that Admission—Surveys for Railway—Fleming’s Expeditions—Dispute between the British Government and the United States—Joint-Commission sent out to determine the Boundary Line—Results obtained by it.