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--Greely's Remarkable Ride--Hank Monk, the Renowned Driver--Fatal Effects of "Corking" a Story--Bald-Headed Anecdote

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       CHAPTER XXI.

       Alkali Dust--Desolation and Contemplation--Carson City--Our Journey Ended--We are Introduced to Several Citizens--A Strange Rebuke--A Washoe Zephyr at Play--Its Office Hours--Governor's Palace--Government Offices

       --Our French Landlady Bridget O'Flannigan--Shadow Secrets--Cause for a Disturbance at Once--The Irish Brigade--Mrs. O'Flannigan's Boarders--The Surveying Expedition--Escape of the Tarantulas

       CHAPTER XXII.

       The Son of a Nabob--Start for Lake Tahoe--Splendor of the Views--Trip on the Lake--Camping Out--Reinvigorating Climate--Clearing a Tract of Land

       --Securing a Title--Outhouse and Fences

       CHAPTER XXIII.

       A Happy Life--Lake Tahoe and its Moods--Transparency of the Waters--A Catastrophe--Fire! Fire!--A Magnificent Spectacle--Homeless Again--We take to the Lake--A Storm--Return to Carson

       CHAPTER XXIV.

       Resolve to Buy a Horse--Horsemanship in Carson--A Temptation--Advice Given Me Freely--I Buy the Mexican Plug--My First Ride--A Good Bucker--I Loan the Plug--Experience of Borrowers--Attempts to Sell--Expense of the Experiment--A Stranger Taken In

       CHAPTER XXV.

       The Mormons in Nevada--How to Persuade a Loan from Them--Early History of the Territory--Silver Mines Discovered--The New Territorial Government--A Foreign One and a Poor One--Its Funny Struggles for Existence--No Credit,

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       no Cash--Old Abe Currey Sustains it and its Officers--Instructions and

       Vouchers--An Indian's Endorsement--Toll-Gates

       CHAPTER XXVI.

       The Silver Fever--State of the Market--Silver Bricks--Tales Told--Off for the Humboldt Mines

       CHAPTER XXVII.

       Our manner of going--Incidents of the Trip--A Warm but Too Familiar a

       Bedfellow--Mr. Ballou Objects--Sunshine amid Clouds--Safely Arrived

       CHAPTER XXVIII.

       Arrive at the Mountains--Building Our Cabin--My First Prospecting Tour

       --My First Gold Mine--Pockets Filled With Treasures--Filtering the News to

       My Companions--The Bubble Pricked--All Not Gold That Glitters

       CHAPTER XXIX.

       Out Prospecting--A Silver Mine At Last--Making a Fortune With Sledge and

       Drill--A Hard Road to Travel--We Own in Claims--A Rocky Country

       CHAPTER XXX.

       Disinterested Friends--How "Feet" Were Sold--We Quit Tunnelling--A Trip

       to Esmeralda--My Companions--An Indian Prophesy--A Flood--Our Quarters

       During It

       CHAPTER XXXI.

       The Guests at "Honey Lake Smith's"--"Bully Old Arkansas"--"Our Landlord"

       --Determined to Fight--The Landlord's Wife--The Bully Conquered by Her

       --Another Start--Crossing the Carson--A Narrow Escape--Following Our Own

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       Track--A New Guide--Lost in the Snow

       CHAPTER XXXII.

       Desperate Situation--Attempts to Make a Fire--Our Horses leave us--We Find Matches--One, Two, Three and the Last--No Fire--Death Seems Inevitable--We Mourn Over Our Evil Lives--Discarded Vices--We Forgive Each Other--An Affectionate Farewell--The Sleep of Oblivion

       CHAPTER XXXIII.

       Return of Consciousness--Ridiculous Developments--A Station House--Bitter

       Feelings--Fruits of Repentance--Resurrected Vices

       CHAPTER XXXIV.

       About Carson--General Buncombe--Hyde vs. Morgan--How Hyde Lost His Ranch

       --The Great Landslide Case--The Trial--General Buncombe in Court--A Wonderful Decision--A Serious Afterthought

       CHAPTER XXXV.

       A New Travelling Companion--All Full and No Accommodations--How Captain Nye found Room--and Caused Our Leaving to be Lamented--The Uses of Tunnelling--A Notable Example--We Go into the "Claim" Business and Fail

       --At the Bottom

       CHAPTER XXXVI.

       A Quartz Mill--Amalgamation--"Screening Tailings"--First Quartz Mill in

       Nevada--Fire Assay--A Smart Assayer--I stake for an advance

       CHAPTER XXXVII.

       The Whiteman Cement Mine--Story of its Discovery--A Secret Expedition--A

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       Nocturnal Adventure--A Distressing Position--A Failure and a Week's

       Holiday

       CHAPTER XXXVIII.

       Mono Lake--Shampooing Made Easy--Thoughtless Act of Our Dog and the Results--Lye Water--Curiosities of the Lake--Free Hotel--Some Funny Incidents a Little Overdrawn

       CHAPTER XXXIX.

       Visit to the Islands in Lake Mono--Ashes and Desolation--Life Amid Death Our Boat Adrift--A Jump For Life--A Storm On the Lake--A Mass of Soap Suds--Geological Curiosities--A Week On the Sierras--A Narrow Escape From a Funny Explosion--"Stove Heap Gone"

       CHAPTER XL.

       The "Wide West" Mine--It is "Interviewed" by Higbie--A Blind Lead--Worth a Million--We are Rich At Last--Plans for the Future

       CHAPTER XLI.

       A Rheumatic Patient--Day Dreams--An Unfortunate Stumble--I Leave

       Suddenly--Another Patient--Higbie in the Cabin--Our Balloon Bursted

       --Worth Nothing--Regrets and Explanations--Our Third Partner

       CHAPTER XLII.

       What to do Next?--Obstacles I Had Met With--"Jack of All Trades"--Mining

       Again--Target Shooting--I Turn City Editor--I Succeed Finely

       CHAPTER XLIII.

       My Friend Boggs--The School Report--Boggs Pays Me An Old Debt--Virginia

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       City

       CHAPTER XLIV.

       Flush Times--Plenty of Stock--Editorial Puffing--Stocks Given Me--Salting

       Mines--A Tragedian In a New Role

       CHAPTER XLV.

       Flush Times Continue--Sanitary Commission Fund--Wild Enthusiasm of the

       People--Would not wait to Contribute--The Sanitary Flour Sack--It is Carried to Gold Hill and Dayton--Final Reception in Virginia--Results of the Sale--A Grand Total

       CHAPTER XLVI.

       The Nabobs of Those Days--John Smith as a Traveler--Sudden Wealth--A

       Sixty-Thousand-Dollar Horse--A Smart Telegraph Operator--A Nabob in New

       York City--Charters an Omnibus--"Walk in, It's All Free"--"You Can't Pay a Cent"--"Hold On, Driver, I Weaken"--Sociability of New Yorkers

       CHAPTER XLVII.

       Buck Fanshaw's Death--The Cause Thereof--Preparations for His Burial

       --Scotty Briggs the Committee Man--He Visits the Minister--Scotty Can't Play His Hand--The Minister Gets Mixed--Both Begin to See--"All Down Again But Nine"--Buck Fanshaw as a Citizen--How To "Shook Your Mother"

       --The Funeral--Scotty Briggs as a Sunday School Teacher

       CHAPTER XLVIII.

       The First Twenty-Six Graves in Nevada--The Prominent Men of the County

       --The Man Who Had Killed His Dozen--Trial by Jury--Specimen Jurors--A Private Grave Yard--The Desperadoes--Who They Killed--Waking up the Weary