Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast

Name: Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast
Author: Rusling, James Fowler

Rusling, James Fowler

Overland journeys to the Pacific; Pacific States -- Description and travel; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel

Idaho.--Boisè City.--Miners.--Saloons.--Specie and "Dust"
        _vs._ Greenbacks.--John Chinaman.--An Idaho Dogberry
        _vs._ Judge Lynch.--Idaho generally.--Fort Boisè.--A
        Lucky Paymaster.--"Swinging Round the Circle."--Off for
        the Columbia.--Burnt River and Powder River and their
        Valleys.--Snake River again.--Farewell Bend.--Steamboating
        on the Snake.--Bituminous Coal.--Oregon.--Baker
        City.--Grand Ronde Valley.--Le Grande.--Crossing
        the Blue Mountains.--Mules _vs._ Horses.--Le Grande
        River.--Scenery.--A Corkscrew Road.--"Jordan a Hard Road
        to Travel."--Freight Trains and Teamsters.--Some "Horse"
        Philosophy.--Bull-whackers as a Class.--Ox-teams.--A
        Hard Pull.--Break-downs.--"Meacham's."--A Live
        Oregonian.--Pikes and Confederates.--Caught in a Snow
        Storm.--A Fine View.--"Crawfords."--"Well's Springs."--A
        Sick Horse.--Umatilla River.--Indian Reservation.--Fine
        Water-power--John Wilful.--A Specimen Idahoan.--Good-bye to
        Stage-coaching, etc.                                  223-249


                              CHAPTER XV.

                          _Down the Columbia._

    Umatilla.--Indians.--A Mr. Micawber.--Steamboats.--Capt.
        Stump.--Oregon Steam Navigation Company.--The
        Columbia and its Tributaries.--Indians.--"Calico"
        Horses.--Celilo.--Railroad Portages.--Shooting the Rapids
        in a Steamboat.--The Dalles.--Upper Cascades.--Lower
        Cascades.--Wild and Picturesque River Scenery.--Cascade
        Mountains.--Cañon of the Columbia.--Castle Rock.--Mount
        Hood.--Hood from the Columbia.--Quick Changes of
        Climate.--Coast Region and Rains.--Fellow-passengers. 250-260


                              CHAPTER XVI.

                   _Fort Vancouver to San Francisco._

    Vancouver.--Gen. Steele.--About Sherman.--The Truth as to Grant's
        Vicksburg Campaign.--A True Army Bachelor.--Isothermal
        Lines.--Superb Hood again.--Portland.--Her Enterprise
        and Importance.--Yankee Doodle _vs._ John Bull.--Puget
        Sound.--Oregonians generally.--John Chinaman.--His Good
        Qualities.--Off for San Francisco by Steamer.--Mountain Views
        from Mouth of Willamette.--Jefferson, Hood, Adams, and St.
        Helen's.--Astoria.--Rain and Fog.--Bar of the Columbia.--Fort
        Stevens and Cape Disappointment.--Crossing the Bar.--The
        Oriflamme and Capt. Conner.--Sea Sickness.--Bad Weather.--A
        Rough Voyage.--Off 'Frisco.--All hail, the Golden Gate!
                                                              261-275


                             CHAPTER XVII.

                            _San Francisco._

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Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast

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