It was Frank James.... He looks more like a prosperous farmer or the president of a rural bank than like a bandit. In his manner there is a strong note of the showman 335 The campus seems to have "just growed."... Nevertheless, there is a sort of homely charm about the place, with its unimposing, helter-skelter piles of brick and stone 353 Even at sea the great bowl of the sky had never looked to me so vast 368 The little towns of western Kansas are far apart and have, like the surrounding scenery, an air of sadness and desolation 373 In the lobby of the Brown Palace Hotel we saw several old fellows, sitting about, looking neither prosperous nor busy, but always talking mines. A kind word, or even a pleasant glance, is enough to set them off 380 "Ain't Nature wonderful!" 405 I was by this time very definitely aware that I had my fill of winter motoring in the mountains. The mere reluctance I felt as we began to climb had now developed into a passionate desire to desist 412 The homes of Colorado Springs really explain the place and the society is as cosmopolitan as the architecture 417 On the road to Cripple Creek we were always turning, always turning upward 432 We were invited to meet the President of the Mormon Church and some members of his family at the Beehive House, his official residence 452 The Lion House--a large adobe building in which formerly resided the rank and file of Brigham Young's wives 461 The Cliff House has a Sorrento setting and hectic turkey-trotting nights 468 The Salt-water pool, Olympic Club, San Francisco 477 The switchboard of the Chinatown telephone exchange is set in a shrine and the operators are dressed in Chinese silks 496 We believed we had encountered every kind of "booster" that creeps, crawls, walks, crows, cries, bellows, barks or brays, but it remained for the Exposition to show us a new specimen 504 New York--Everyone is in a hurry. Everyone is dodging everyone else. Everyone is trying to keep his knees from being knocked by swift-passing suitcases 513 STEPPING WESTWARD ABROAD AT HOME CHAPTER I STEPPING WESTWARD "_What, you are stepping westward?_"--"_Yea._" --'Twould be a wildish destiny, If we, who thus together roam In a strange Land, and far from home, Were in this place the guests of Chance: Yet who would stop or fear to advance, Though home or shelter he had none, With such a sky to lead him on? --WORDSWORTH.