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Agricultural Lands of California, 207
Alameda, 125
Almaden Quicksilver Mines, the, 128
Appendix, 243
Auburn, 68
Battle Mountain Station, 55
Big Trees, 141, 164
Black-Hawk, the city of, 229
Bluffs, Council, 22
Bonds of Pacific Railroads, 270
Bower Cave, 166
Buffalo, the home of the, 235
Burlington Route, 21
Byers, William N., 224
California, the season of the year to make the journey, 179
” Summary view of, 217
” for settlers, 207
Calistoga, the ‘Saratoga’ of the Pacific, 108
Cañon, the great American, 61
Cape Horn, 66
Cedar Rapids, the city of, 19
Central, City of, 229
Central Pacific, the story of its Organisation and Construction, 193
Cheyenne, 35
Chicago, 14–16
Chinese, the, 88
Clark’s Ranch, 139
Clear Creek and Cañon, 233
Cliff House and the Road, 75
Colorado, 219
” Altitudes, 279
” Weather, 281
” Mining, 282
” Central Railroad, 225
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up Clear Creek Cañon, 227
” Geographical limits, and location of, 220
” Climate and Parks of, 236
” Society in, 238
” Ores, Treatment of, 241
Corinne, the town of, 50
Council Bluffs, 22
Coulterville to Merced, Stage ride back through, 167
Crane Flat, 164
Denver, First view of, 222
” Its history and situation, 223
” Pacific Railroad, 219
” Road from, to the mines, 303
Devil’s Inkstand, the, 115
Discovery and Settlement of Yo-Semite Valley, 253
Donner Lake, 59
Echo and Weber Cañon, 40, 41
El Capitan, 133
Elliott, William B., 117
Erie Road, the, 5
Evans, the town of, and its characteristics, 221
Evanston, 40
Expenses of journey, 178
Fashionable people travelling, 144
Gate, the Golden, 76
Gentry’s, the trail up to, 164
Georgetown, 232
Geysers, the Great, 110
” the steamboat, 115
” the ride up to the Great, 109
Goat Island, 98
Golden, the city of, 225
” Mechanical enterprises of, 232
Gold, the discovery of, in California, 266
Greeley, the town of, 220
Heraszthy, Col., 215
Hetch-Hetchy Valley, 248
Homeward Bound, 190
Hospitality, Californian, 183
Hotel Car, A, 21
Humboldt River, and the Sinks of, 54
Hudson River, 3
Hutchings, J. M., 157, 160, 246, 257, 258
Hydraulic mining, 63
Idaho Springs, 231
Insane Asylum, Stockton, 174
Inspiration Point, 148
Iowa. a ride through Northern, 19
Jury, the Woman, 38
King, Starr, a tribute to the memory of, 83
Kip, Bishop, the Views of, 210
Lamon, J. C., 160, 259
Land Grants, 269
Laramie, City of, 38
” Great and Little Plains of, 39
Mariposa, 137
” Grove of big trees, 141
Merced City, 133, 167
Mining towns, Peculiar speech at, 233
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” How to reach them, 271
” in Colorado, 282
Missouri River, 25
”
” Bridge, 26
Mitchell, John, 170
Mormons, the, their houses of worship and schools, 42-47
Mormon Community, 47
Mountains, the Rocky, 36
Mountain view, Grand, 224
Muir, John, 159
Napa-valley, 104
” city and its gardens, 104
Nevada Cañon, 157
” Falls, 158
New York, State of, 4
Niagara Falls, 12
Northern Pacific Railroad, 281
North West, 17
North Western Railroad, 19
Oakland, 70
Ogden, 42
Omaha, the city of, 18-23
Overland trip reviewed, 177
Pacific Union, the, 31, 269
” Railroad, the Union, how it was built, 200
Pacific Railroad, the building of the Central, 193
” Railroads and Land Grants, 269
Park, National, the Yo-Semite declared a, 246
Pennsylvania, State of, 8
Philadelphia, the City of, 9
Preliminary Surveys, 204
Quartz-mining in California, 239
” in Colorado, 240
Ralston’s, a day at, 187
Reno, 56
Rock Island Route, 20
Rocklin, 68
Routes, the several from the East to Chicago, 1
” New York Central, 3
” Erie, 5
” Pennsylvania, 6
” Baltimore and Ohio, 9
Sacramento, the city of, 69
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a ride from, to Oakland, opposite San Francisco,
70
Salt Lake City, Situation, people, and buildings of, 45
Salt Lake, the, 53
San Diego, the city of 211
San Francisco, arrival in, 71
” ” seal rock and the sea lions, 74
” ” Sunday in, 77
” ” impressions of, 78
” ” what is seen from Oakland Wharf, 79
” ” streets of the city of, 81
” ” architecture and churches of, 82, 83
” ” gardens, plants, and trees of, 84
” ” school and manufacturing interests of, 85
” ” and currency of, 87
San Francisco horse-cars in, 87
” ” the Chinese in, 89
” ” hotels, people, and amusements of, 94, 95
” ” art and the artists of, 97
” ” the future of, 101
Santa Clara College, 127
” ” city of, 126
” ” valley of, 119
San José, city of, 132
Seal Rock and the lions, 74
Sherman, 37
Sierra Nevada Mountains, 145
” ” ” elevation of peaks and passes of, 244
Smelting Works, Prof. Hill’s, 280
Snow sheds, 59
Southern California, 209
Southern Pacific, 281
South Tuolumne big trees, 165
Stockton, 171
Sulphur Springs, white, 106
Summit Station, 61
Surveys, the several, made to determine the routes for a railroad, 204
Transcontinental Routes, 203
Travelling in California, 176
Tenaya Cañon, 155
Trees and plants in Yo-Semite Valley, 250
” ” of Rocky Mountains, 275
Truckee region, the, 59
Tule Lands, 173
Tuolumne, South, grove of big trees, 165
Union Pacific, its construction, &c., 200
Utah, future of, 50
Vernal Falls, 158
Virginia city, 57
Wahsatch Mountains, 41–44
Washington, the city of, 9
Weather in California, 179
West, advice to those intending to go, 218
Wheat farming, 169
White sulphur springs, 106
Wine growing, 213
Wyoming, territory of, 35
Yellowstone, the Park of the, 51
Yo-Semite, to the, 131
” Valley, routes to the, 131
” trails from Clark’s into the, 146
” wonders of, 145
” Fall, the, 153
” the flora, 162
” Valley, flowers, trees, and shrubs of, 162
” routes to, viâ Mariposa, 243
” ” to, viâ Big-Oak Flat, 243
” ” to, viâ Coulterville, 243
” Valley, mountains around the, 245
” the waterfalls, 245
” the, declared a national park, 246
” Valley, trees and plants growing in and around the, 250
” ” the road to, 135
” ” Inspiration Point, 147
” ” advice about the trip, 176
” ” origin of the name, 262
Young, Brigham, 49
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