Transcriber's Note:

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the originaldocument have been preserved.

On page 26 Count Fritz Thumb should possibly be Count FritzThumb.

On page 120, Indianopolis should possibly be Indianapolis.

On page 124, General How should possibly be General Howe.

HESPEROTHEN;

NOTES FROM THE WEST:

A RECORD OF A

RAMBLE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1881.

BY
W. H. RUSSELL, LL.D.
BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

Vol. II.

LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188 FLEET STREET.
1882.

[All rights reserved.]

LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

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CONTENTS OF VOL. II.


CHAPTER I.
ARIZONA.
Deming—The Mirage—Ruined Cities—American Explorers—Self-Tormentors—Animalsand Plants—Yuma—California—LosAngeles—Santa Monica—The PacificPage 1
CHAPTER II.
THE YOSEMITE VALLEY.
A new Land of Goshen—A Jehu indeed—The Drive to Clarke's—AMountain Hostelry—Grizzlies—Fascination Point—TheMerced—Yosemite Fall—A Salute—Mountain Airs—The MirrorLake—"See that Rattle?"—A Philosophic Barber19
CHAPTER III.
SAN FRANCISCO.
The Palace Hotel—General McDowell—Palo-Alto—The "Hoodlums"—Thereal Sir Roger—Exiles in the Far West—TheChinese Population—For and Against them—The Sand Lot—FastTrotters—The Sea-Lions—The Diamond Palace—TheColoured Population—"Eastward Ho!"44
CHAPTER IV.
CALIFORNIA TO COLORADO.
Los Angeles—Mud-geysers—"Billy the Kid"—General Fremont—Manitou,the Garden of the Gods—Desperadoes—Bob Ingersoll—DenverCity—Leadville—Grand Cañon73iv
CHAPTER V.
KANSAS TO ST. LOUIS.
Liquor Law—Kansas Academy of Science—An Incident of Travel—AParting Symposium—Life in the Cars—St. Louis to NewYork107
CHAPTER VI.
NEW YORK—NEWPORT—DEPARTURE.
Coney Island—Newport—Bass-fishing—Habit of Spitting—BrightonBeach—Newport Coaching—Extra Ecclesiam—Victoriesof American Horses—Newport Avenues—Return toNew York—Our Last Day in America...

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