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Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Language
English
Pages
443

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Gold discoveries, Description and travel, Zamorano 80
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Frank Marryat (1826-1855)
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California

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. Chagres River — Curiosity — Isthmus of Panama — Washington Hotel- Ants — A Native of Virginia — Gold Train — Robbery — Panama Belts — An Emigrant Ship — An Affecting Preacher — San Francisco Page 1 CHAPTER II. A Great Country — Improvement — Adventurers — Drinking-Saloons — The Old Judge — Banks — Mine Speculators — Gambling Houses — "Don't Shoot"—Climate— High and Dry Page 21 CHAPTER III. Benicia — Barnes — A Mad Bloodhound — His Death — Grasshoppers — Don Raymond — A Blessed City — Wicked Mules — "Camping Out" — Napa — Fourth of July — Agriculturists — Sonoma — Competition —An Irascible Bull Page 39 CHAPTER IV. Spanish Grants — Squatters — Squatter Fights — A Spanish Ranche — Good Quarters — Fleas — Vanity — Vaccaros — Quilp — English Saddles— Antelope Hunt— Rattle-Snakes — Quilp Waltzes — Californian Horses — Saddles — Horse-Breaking — A Tame Horse Page 58 CHAPTER V. Spanish Priests — Indians — Quilp forgets himself — Habits of Native Californians — Father Bartoleméo— The Lasso — Good Riders — Cattle Branding — Raymond provides Mules — Russian River — We Encamp — Saw-mill — I propose to "Squat" Page 78 CHAPTER VI. The Little Valley— Three Martyrs— Mountain Life— The Poor Does— Castor-oil — A Sick Dog — The Carpentaro — Grey Squirrel — Digger Indians — Red-wood Tree — American Rifles — Grizzly Bear Hunt — Sheldon Wounded — Difficulty in Killing the Bear — Habits of the Bear— A Thief Page 97 CHAPTER VII. Deer Hunting— Wild Bulls — Wild Fowl — A Duck Gun — Driving an Ox-Team — I Reflect — An Estampede — The Tiger Cat — Rainy Season — Indian Fires — Wasps — We are Robbed by the Indians — I kill a Bear — Crossing a Swollen River Page 122 CHAPTER VIII. Quilp departs for the South — San Luis — Ramsey — I am left for Dead — The Early History of California — Discovery of San Francisco — Spanish Missions — A Digression — Digression, continued — A Rainy Season — A Little Crab Page 144 CHAPTER IX. The Old Crab-Catcher — Mr Warren — American Friendship — The American Press — Education in America — Americans Good Colonists— Californian Correspondence Page 164 CHAPTER X. Long Wharf — Clipper Ships — Chinese Emigrants — The May Fire — An Exciting Scene — Iron Houses — Vallejo — The Coyote — Wild Geese Page 180 CHAPTER XI. Coyote Hunting — My Dominions are Invaded — Thomas kills a Bear — A Trial of Strength — Rowe's "Lot" — Choctaw — Elk — A Butchery —Rough Life— Fertility of the Soil Page 197 CHAPTER XII. Another Fire — My Geological Friend — "Burnt Out" — Sacramento — Levee — Hulks — Rats — Vigilance Committee — Start for Volcano — Crocket— "Right Side Up" Page 216 CHAPTER XIII. An Old She-goat — Our Mineralogist — Gold Diggers — Murderer's Bar — The Theorist puzzled — Mining Laws — Jumping Claims— The Miner's Life — "Let her slide" — Hostile Indians— We are disgusted — Fire-proof Houses Page 231 CHAPTER XIV. Joe Bellow — Stockton — A Bear Trapper— Bear and Bull Fights — An Uneasy Bear — Californian Inns — Natural Roads — Good Driving — I Kill a Flea — Sonora —The Evening commences — French Emigrants—A Drinking Bar — Number Eighty— A Corral and a Moral Page 218 CHAPTER XV. The Gold Mine — The Innocence of Sonora — Sunday in Sonora — Selling a Horse — Carrying Weapons — Bob — We leave Vallejo — We are "Bound to go"— The Shadow of a Crow Page 269 CHAPTER XVI. I explain to the Patient Reader — Pioneers — A Lady's Boot — Main-spring — Mexican Robbers — Victims of Prejudice — Works on America — Two Pigs — Power of the Human Will Page 286 CHAPTER XVII. Yield of Gold — Its Duration — Mormon Gulch — The Distribution of Gold —Tunnelling — Damming Rivers — Holden's Garden — Energy in the Mines — Quartz Mines — Quartz Mining successful — The Author gets out of his Depth Page 304 CHAPTER XVIII. Transport Machinery to the Mine — The Carpenter Judge, and Constable Rowe— Cut-throat Jack — Greasers —French Miners — John Chinaman — Chinese Ferocity — The Feast of Lanterns — Chinese Despotism — False Sympathy Page 323 CHAPTER XIX. The Firemen of San Francisco — "We strive to Save" — A Barber's Saloon — Oysters — Places of Amusement — A Pickled Head — Shooting on Sight Page 341 CHAPTER XX. Rat-Catchers — Drays — Crested Partridge— A Marvellous Story — Sailors in the Mines -A Verdict — The Quartz has the best of it — I leave Tuttle-tovvn Page 356 CHAPTER XXI. Advice to Emigrants — Gold Countries— Self-Doctoring — Advice continued — I arrive at Stockton Page 373 CHAPTER XXII. Elections — Executions — Reforms — Exiles — "Know Nothings" — Testimonials — Speaking Trumpets — Ocean Steamers — Life-Buoys — Air-Boats — Confidence necessary — Fitting a Raft — A Suggestion Page 387 CHAPTER XXIII. "Hercules" fails — Land Crabs — Mr Bobbins — Rushing the Ship — New York Page 406 CHAPTER XXIV. Yellow Fever — A Wooden Head — Hard Times — A Gale — We Spring a Leak— Acapulco — Smuggling — Cholera — Conclusion Page 417 APPENDIX Page 433

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Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-24 at end.

Other Titles
Mountains and molehills.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
979.4/04
Library of Congress
F865 .M3 1855b

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 443, 24 p., [8] leaves of plates :
Number of pages
443

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24770295M
Internet Archive
mountainsmolehil00marr
LCCN
82183564
OCLC/WorldCat
9326304

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