ROUGHING IT -- PREFATORY -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. -- My Brother appointed Secretary of Nevada -- I Envy His Prospective Adventures -- Am Appointed Private Secretary Under Him -- My Contentment Complete -- Packed in One Hour -- Dreams and Visions -- On the Missouri River -- A Bully Boat -- CHAPTER II. -- Arrive at St. Joseph -- Only Twenty-five Pounds Baggage Allowed -- Farewell to Kid Gloves and Dress Coats -- Armed to the Teeth -- The "Allen" -- A Cheerful Weapon -- Persuaded to Buy a Mule -- Schedule of Luxuries -- We Leave the States -- Our Coach -- Mails for the Indians -- Between a Wink and an Earthquake -- A Modern Sphynx and How She Entertained Us -- A Sociable Heifer -- CHAPTER III. -- The Thoroughbrace is Broke -- Mails Delivered Properly -- Sleeping Under Difficulties -- A Jackass Rabbit Meditating, and on Business -- A Modern Gulliver -- Sage-brush -- Overcoats as an Article of Diet -- Sad Fate of a Camel -- Warning to Experimenters -- CHAPTER IV. -- Making Our Bed -- Assaults by the Unabridged -- At a Station -- Our Driver a Great and Shining Dignitary -- Strange Place for a Frontyard -- Accommodations -- Double Portraits -- An Heirloom -- Our Worthy Landlord -- Fixings and Things -- An Exile -- Slumgullion -- A Well Furnished Table -- The Landlord Astonished -- Table Etiquette -- Wild Mexican Mules -- Stage-coaching and Railroading. -- CHAPTER V. -- New Acquaintances -- The Cayote -- A Dog's Experiences -- A Disgusted Dog -- Untitled -- The Relatives of the Cayote -- Meals Taken Away from Home -- CHAPTER VI. -- The Division Superintendent -- The Conductor -- The Driver -- One Hundred and Fifty Miles' Drive Without Sleep -- Teaching a Subordinate -- Our Old Friend Jack and a Pilgrim -- Ben Holliday Compared to Moses -- CHAPTER VII. -- Overland City -- Crossing the Platte -- Bemis's Buffalo Hunt -- Assault by a Buffalo.

Bemis's Horse Goes Crazy -- An Impromptu Circus -- A New Departure -- Bemis Finds Refuge in a Tree -- Escapes Finally by a Wonderful Method -- CHAPTER VIII. -- The Pony Express -- Fifty Miles Without Stopping -- Here he Comes -- Alkali Water -- Riding an Avalanchev -- Indian Massacre -- CHAPTER IX. -- Among the Indians -- An Unfair Advantage -- Laying on our Arms -- A Midnight Murder -- Wrath of Outlaws -- A Dangerous, yet Valuable Citizen -- CHAPTER X. -- History of Slade -- A Proposed Fist-fight -- Encounter with Jules -- Paradise of Outlaws -- Slade as Superintendent -- As Executioner -- A Doomed Whisky Seller -- A Prisoner -- A Wife's Bravery -- An Ancient Enemy Captured -- Enjoying a Luxury -- Hob-nobbing with Slade -- Too Polite -- A Happy Escape -- CHAPTER XI. -- Slade in Montana -- On a Spree -- In Court -- Attack on a Judge -- Arrest by the Vigilantes -- Turn out of the Miners -- Execution of Slade -- Lamentations of His Wife -- Was Slade a Coward? -- CHAPTER XII. -- A Mormon Emigrant Train -- The Heart of the Rocky Mountains -- Pure Saleratus -- A Natural Ice-House -- An Entire Inhabitant -- In Sight of Eternal Snow -- The South Pass -- The Parting Streams -- An Unreliable Letter Carrier -- Meeting of Old Friends -- A Spoiled Watermelon -- Down the Mountain -- A Scene of Desolation -- Lost in the Dark -- Unnecessary Advice -- U.S.Troops and Indians -- Sublime Spectacle -- Another Delusion Dispelled -- Among the Angels -- CHAPTER XIII. -- Mormons and Gentiles -- Exhilarating Drink, and its Effect on Bemis -- Salt Lake City -- A Great Contrast -- A Mormon Vagrant -- Talk with a Saint -- A Visit to the King -- A Happy Simile -- CHAPTER XIV. -- Mormon Contractors -- How Mr. Street Astonished Them -- The Case Before Brigham Young, and How he Disposed of it -- Polygamy Viewed from a New Position -- CHAPTER XV. -- A Gentile Den.

Polygamy Discussed -- Favorite Wife and D. 4 -- Hennery for Retired Wives -- Children Need Marking -- Cost of a Gift to No. 6 -- A Penny-whistle Gift and its Effects -- Fathering the Foundlings -- It Resembled Him -- The Family Bedstead -- CHAPTER XVI. -- The Mormon Bible -- Proofs of its Divinity -- Plagiarism of its Authors -- Story of Nephi -- Wonderful Battle -- Kilkenny Cats Outdone -- CHAPTER XVII. -- Three Sides to all Questions -- Everything A Quarter -- Shriveled Up -- Emigrants and White Shirts at a Discount -- Forty-Niners -- Above Par -- Real Happiness -- CHAPTER XVIII. -- Alkali Desert -- Romance of Crossing Dispelled -- Alkali Dust -- Effect on the Mules -- Universal Thanksgiving -- CHAPTER XIX. -- The Digger Indians Compared with the Bushmen of Africa -- Food, Life and Characteristics -- Cowardly Attack on a Stage Coach -- A Brave Driver -- The Noble Red Man -- CHAPTER XX. -- The Great American Desert -- Forty Miles on Bones -- Lakes Without Outlets -- Greely's Remarkable Ride -- Hank Monk, the Renowned Driver -- Fatal Effects of Corking a Story -- Bald-Headed Anecdote -- CHAPTER XXI. -- Alkali Dust -- Desolation and Contemplation -- Carson City -- Our Journey Ended -- We are Introduced to Several Citizens -- A Strange Rebuke -- A Washoe Zephyr at Play -- Its Office Hours -- Governor's Palace -- Government Offices -- Our French Landlady Bridget O'Flannigan -- Shadow Secrets -- Cause for a Disturbance at Once -- The Irish Brigade -- Mrs. O'Flannigan's Boarders -- The Surveying Expedition -- Escape of the Tarantulas -- CHAPTER XXII. -- The Son of a Nabob -- Start for Lake Tahoe -- Splendor of the Views -- Trip on the Lake -- Camping Out -- Reinvigorating Climate -- Clearing a Tract of Land -- Securing a Title -- Outhouse and Fences -- CHAPTER XXIII. -- A Happy Life -- Lake Tahoe and its Moods -- Transparency of the Waters.

A Catastrophe -- Fire!Fire! -- A Magnificent Spectacle -- Homeless Again -- We take to the Lake -- A Storm -- Return to Carson -- CHAPTER XXIV. -- Resolve to Buy a Horse -- Horsemanship in Carson -- A Temptation -- Advice Given Me Freely -- I Buy the Mexican Plug -- My First Ride -- A Good Bucker -- I Loan the Plug -- Experience of Borrowers -- Attempts to Sell -- Expense of the Experiment -- A Stranger Taken In. -- CHAPTER XXV. -- The Mormons in Nevada -- How to Persuade a Loan from Them -- Early History of the Territory -- Silver Mines Discovered -- The New Territorial Government -- A Foreign One and a Poor One -- Its Funny Struggles for Existence -- No Credit, no Cash -- Old Abe Currey Sustains it and its Officers -- Instructions and Vouchers -- An Indian's Endorsement -- Toll-Gates -- CHAPTER XXVI. -- The Silver Fever -- State of the Market -- Silver Bricks -- Tales Told -- Off for the Humboldt Mines -- CHAPTER XXVII. -- Our manner of going -- Incidents of the Trip -- A Warm but Too Familiar a Bedfellow -- Mr. Ballou Objects -- Sunshine amid Clouds -- Safely Arrived -- CHAPTER XXVIII. -- Arrive at the Mountains -- Building Our Cabin -- My First Prospecting Tour -- My First Gold Mine -- Pockets Filled With Treasures -- Filtering the News to My Companions -- The Bubble Pricked -- All Not Gold That Glitters. -- CHAPTER XXIX. -- Out Prospecting -- A Silver Mine At Last -- Making a Fortune With Sledge and Drill -- A Hard Road to Travel -- We Own in Claims -- A Rocky Country. -- CHAPTER XXX. -- Disinterested Friends -- How Feet Were Sold -- We Quit Tunnelling -- A Trip to Esmeralda -- My Companions -- An Indian Prophesy -- A Flood -- Our Quarters During It -- CHAPTER XXXI. -- The Guests at Honey Lake Smith's -- Bully Old Arkansas -- Our Landlord -- Determined to Fight -- The Landlord's Wife -- The Bully Conquered by Her -- Another Start.

Crossing the Carson -- A Narrow Escape -- Following Our Own Track -- A New Guide -- Lost in the Snow. -- CHAPTER XXXII. -- Desperate Situation -- Attempts to Make a Fire -- Our Horses leave us -- We Find Matches -- One,Two,Three and the Last -- No Fire -- Death Seems Inevitable -- We Mourn Over Our Evil Lives -- Discarded Vices -- We Forgive Each Other -- An Affectionate Farewell -- The Sleep of Oblivion. -- CHAPTER XXXIII. -- Return of Consciousness -- Ridiculous Developments -- A Station House -- Bitter Feelings -- Fruits of Repentance -- Resurrected Vices -- CHAPTER XXXIV. -- About Carson -- General Buncombe -- Hyde vs. Morgan -- How Hyde Lost His Ranch -- The Great Landslide Case -- The Trial -- General Buncombe in Court -- A Wonderful Decision -- A Serious Afterthought -- CHAPTER XXXV. -- A New Travelling Companion -- All Full and No Accommodations -- How Captain Nye found Room -- and Caused Our Leaving to be Lamented -- The Uses of Tunnelling -- A Notable Example -- We Go into the Claim Business and Fail -- At the Bottom -- CHAPTER XXXVI. -- A Quartz Mill -- Amalgamation -- Screening Tailings -- First Quartz Mill in Nevada -- Fire Assay -- A Smart Assayer -- I stake for an advance -- CHAPTER XXXVII. -- The Whiteman Cement Mine -- Story of its Discovery -- A Secret Expedition -- A Nocturnal Adventure -- A Distressing Position -- A Failure and a Week's Holiday -- CHAPTER XXXVIII. -- Mono Lake -- Shampooing Made Easy -- Thoughtless Act of Our Dog and the Results -- Lye Water -- Curiosities of the Lake -- Free Hotel -- Some Funny Incidents a Little Overdrawn -- CHAPTER XXXIX. -- Visit to the Islands in Lake Mono -- Ashes and Desolation -- Life Amid Death Our Boat Adrift -- A Jump For Life -- A Storm On the Lake -- A Mass of Soap Suds -- Geological Curiosities -- A Week On the Sierras -- A Narrow Escape From a Funny Explosion -- Stove Heap Gone.

CHAPTER XL.