Transcriber’s Notes The Table of Contents at the beginning of the book was created by the transcriber. Inconsistencies in hyphenation such as “gold-boomer”/“gold boomer” have been maintained. Minor punctuation and spelling errors have been silently corrected and, except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, especially in dialogue, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. Page 2: “A Congress of the Rough-riders of the World” changed to “A Congress of the Rough Riders of the World”. Page 238: “Lighting match after mach” changed to “Lighting match after match”.