THE WHITE CROSS LIBRARY.
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Prentice Mulford’s Story

Life by Land and Sea.

BY PRENTICE MULFORD.

NEW YORK:
F. J. NEEDHAM, PUBLISHER,
52 West Fourteenth St.
1889.

Copyright, 1889
By F. J. NEEDHAM.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTERPAGE
[I.] Shadows of Coming Events,[5]
[II.] Going to Sea,[14]
[III.] Getting My Sea Legs On,[20]
[IV.] Much Water and Mutiny,[31]
[V.] San Francisco in 1856,[43]
[VI.] As a Sea Cook,[51]
[VII.] Sights while Cooking,[61]
[VIII.] Whaling in Marguerita Bay,[71]
[IX.] Our Butter Fiends,[82]
[X.] Guadalupe,[86]
[XI.] At the Gold Mines,[90]
[XII.] Swett’s Bar,[99]
[XIII.] One Day’s Digging,[105]
[XIV.] The Miner’s Rainy Day,[114]
[XV.] The Miner’s Sunday,[122]
[XVI.] The Cow Fever,[129]
[XVII.] Red Mountain Bar,[135]
[XVIII.] My California School,[145]
[XIX.] “Jimtown,”[157]
[XX.] Romance of Ah Sam and Hi Sing,[168]
[XXI.] On a Jury,[174]
[XXII.] Some Culinary Reminiscences,[178]
[XXIII.] The Copper Fever,[186]
[XXIV.] Rise and Fall of Copperhead City,[193]
[XXV.] Prospecting,[199]
[XXVI.] High Life,[207]
[XXVII.] Leaving High Life,[217]
[XXVIII.] The Last of High Life,[226]
[XXIX.] On the Rostrum,[237]
[XXX.] Running for Office,[246]
[XXXI.] An Early California Canvass,[254]
[XXXII.] Another Change,[262]
[XXXIII.] Editing vs. Writing,[266]
[XXXIV.] Opinions Journalistic,[275]
[XXXV.] Recent Antiquity,[279]
[XXXVI.] Going Home,[287]