A TRAMP THROUGH THE BRET HARTE COUNTRY

     Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting,
     The river sang below;
     The dim Sierras, far beyond, uplifting
     Their minarets of snow.
     —Dickens in Camp.

     The Chapters
     Foreword

     Preface

     Reminiscences of Bret Harte. "Plain Language From Truthful
     James." The Glamour of the Old Mining Towns

     Inception of the Tramp. Stockton to Angel's Camp. Tuttletown
     and the "Sage of Jackass Hill"

     Tuolumne to Placerville. Charm of Sonora and Fascination of
     San Andreas and Mokelumne Hill

     J. H. Bradley and the Cary House. Ruins of Coloma. James W.
     Marshall and His Pathetic End

     Auburn to Nevada City Via Colfax and Grass Valley. Ben
     Taylor and His Home

     E. W. Maslin and His Recollections of Pioneer Days in Grass
     Valley. Origin of Our Mining Laws

     Grass Valley to Smartsville. Sucker Flat and Its Personal
     Appeal

     Smartsville to Marysville. Some Reflections on Automobiles
     and "Hoboes"

     Bayard Taylor and the California of Forty-nine. Bret Harte
     and His Literary Pioneer Contemporaries

     The Illustrations
     Ruins of Coloma, a Name "Forever Associated With the Wildest
     Scramble for Gold the World Has Ever Been"

     Map of the "Bret Harte Country," Showing the Route Taken by
     the Writer, With the Towns, Important Rivers, and County
     Boundaries of the Country Traversed

     The Tuttletown Hotel, Tuttletown; a Wooden Building Erected
     in the Early Fifties

     Mokelumne River; "Whatever the Meaning of the Indian Name,
     One May Rest Assured It Stands for Some Form of Beauty"

     "A Mining Convention at Placerville"

     South Fork of the American River, Coloma. The Bend in the
     River Is the Precise Spot Where Gold Was First Discovered in
     California

     Ben Taylor and His Home, Grass Valley, Showing the Spruce He
     Planted Nearly Half a Century Ago

     E. W. Maslin in the Garden of His Alameda Home

     Angel's Hotel, Angel's Camp, Erected in 1852, as was the
     Wells Fargo Building Which Faces it Across the Street

     Main Hoist of the Utica Mine, Angel's Camp, Situated on the
     Summit of a Hill Overlooking the Town

     The Stanislaus River, Near Tuttletown, "Running in a Deep
     and Splendid Canon"

     Jackass Hill, Tuttletown. The Road to the Left Leads to the
     Former Home of "Jim" Gillis

     Home of Mrs. Swerer, Tuttletown. The Hotel and This Dwelling
     Comprise All That Is Habitable of the Tuttletown of Bret
     Harte

     Main Street, Sonora, "So Shaded by Trees That Buildings Are
     Half-hidden"

     Sonora, Looking Southeast. "No Matter From What Direction
     You Approach It, Sonora Seems to Lie Basking in the Sun"

     Main Street, San Andreas, "During the Mid-day Heat, Almost
     Deserted"

     Metropolitan Hotel, San Andreas; in the Bar-room of Which
     Occurred the "Jumping Frog" Incident

     Mokelumne Hotel, on the Summit of Mokelumne Hill, and at the
     Head of the Famous Chili Gulch

     Placerville, the County Seat of El Dorado County, From the
     Road to Diamond Springs

     The Cary House, Placerville. "It Was Here That Horace
     Greeley Terminated His Celebrated Stage Ride With Hank Monk"

     Middle Fork of the American River, Near Auburn, and Half a
     Mile Above Its Junction With the North Fork

     An Apple Orchard, Grass Valley, "The Trees Growing in the
     Grass, as in England and the Atlantic States"

     The Western Hotel, Grass Valley. "The Well and Pump Add a
     Quaint and Characteristic Touch"

     A Bit of Picturesque Nevada City, Embracing the Homes of Its
     Leading Citizens