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 OCEAN TO OCEAN ON HORSEBACK. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. From earliest boyhood it had been my earnest desire to see and learn from personal observation all that was possible of the wonderful land of my birth. Passing from the schoolroom to the War of the Rebellion and thence back to the employments of peace, the old longing to make a series of journeys over the American Continent again took possession of me and was the controlling incentive of all my ambitions and struggles for many years.