Preface by Russell H. Chittenden		vii
Illustrations		xi
Introduction		xv

BOOK I—1860-1861
Chapter
I.	To California via Panama	3
II.	Los Angeles and Environs	11
III.	More of Southern California	29
IV.	Starting Northward	43
V.	Santa Barbara	55
VI.	The Coast Road	73
VII.	Salinas Valley and Monterey	91

BOOK II—1861
I.	An Interlude	117
II.	New Idria	135
III.	New Almaden	149
IV.	Approaching the Bay	169
V.	The Mount Diablo Range	191
VI.	Napa Valley and the Geysers	213

BOOK III—1862
I.	The Rainy Season	241
II.	Tamalpais and Diablo	255
III.	The Diablo Range South	275
IV.	Up the Sacramento River	291
V.	Mount Shasta	309
VI.	West and East of the Sacramento River	325
VII.	Closing the Year—A Miscellany	347

BOOK IV—1863
I.	In and about San Francisco	365
II.	Tejon—Tehachapi—Walker’s Pass	375
III.	The Big Trees—Yosemite—Tuolumne Meadows	397
IV.	Mono Lake—AurorA—Sonora Pass	415
V.	To Carson Pass and Lake Tahoe	429
VI.	The Northern Mines and Lassen’s Peak	451
VII.	Siskiyou	471
VIII.	Crescent City and San Francisco	489

BOOK V—1864
I.	San Joaquin Valley—Giant Sequoias	505
II.	The High Sierra of Kings River	517
III.	Owens Valley and the San Joaquin Sierra	533
IV.	The Washoe Mines	551
V.	Homeward Bound—Nicaragua	561

Itinerary		571
Index		589