CHAPTER XXX.
SAN FRANCISCO AND END OF JOURNEY.
Metropolis of the Pacific Coast--Largest Gold Fields in the World--The Jesuits--Captain Sutter--Argonauts of "49"--Great Excitement--Discovery of Upper California--Sir Francis Drake--John P. Lease--The Founding of San Francisco--The "Golden Age"--Story of Kit Carson--The Golden Gate--San Francisco Deserted--The Cholera Plague--California Admitted to the Union--Crandall's Stage--Wonderful Development of San Francisco--United States Mint--Handsome Buildings--Trade with China, Japan, India and Australia--Go Out to the Cliff House--Ride into the Pacific--End of Journey 476
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Wayside Notes _Frontispiece_.
Views in Boston 33
Scenes in Boston 39
Boston and Environs 49
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston 57
Leaving the Revere House, Boston 71
Riding Through Cambridge 77
View in Worcester, Mass. 81
A New England Paper Mill 85
Old Toll-Bridge at Springfield 91
A Massachusetts Mill Stream 95
The Springfield Armory 99
A Mill in the Berkshire Hills 103
A Hamlet in Berkshire Hills 107
Suburb of Pittsfield 111
A Scene in the Berkshire Hills 115
State Street and Capitol, Albany, N. Y. 125
River Street, Troy, N. Y. 129
View in Schenectady, N. Y. 133
View in Mohawk Valley 143
A Mill Stream in Mohawk Valley 139
A Flourishing Farm 157
An Old Landmark 161
The Road to Albany 121
View of Rochester 171
The District School-House 177
Rural Scene in Central New York 183
The Road to Buffalo 189
Juvenile Picnic 205
A Cottage on the Hillside 211
Haying in Northern Ohio 221
Just Out of Cleveland 225
On the Shore of Lake Erie 235
Sunday at the Farm 241
A Home in the Woods 245
Country Store and Post Office 255
An Ohio Farm 265
Outskirts of a City 279
A Summer Afternoon 303
The Country Peddler 313
A Mill in the Forest 321
No Rooms To Let 335
Rural Scene in Michigan 341
Spinning Yarns by a Tavern Fire 345
A Hoosier Cabin 355
A Circus in Town 359
A Country Road in Illinois 381
An Illinois Home 385
A Happy Family 395
An Illinois Village 399
The Road to the Church 404
An Iowa Village 419
On the Way to Mill 427
A Night Among the Coyotes 431
High School, Omaha, Neb. 441
Omaha, Neb., in 1876 437
Sport on the Plains 449
Pawnee Indians, Neb. 453
North Platte, Neb. 457
Plum Creek, Neb. 463
Cattle Ranch in Nebraska 467
A Mountain Village 471
Captured by the Indians 477
Deciding the Fate of the Captives 481
Escape from the Arrapahoes 487
An Indian Encampment, Wyoming 495
Sheep Ranch in Wyoming 503
Mining Camp in Nevada 507
A Rocky Mountain River 513
A Lake in the Sierra Nevadas 517
A Cascade by the Roadside 525
View in Woodward's Garden, San Francisco 533
The Pacific Ocean, End of Journey 541
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