CHAPTER I. The Old Flush Days
CHAPTER II. The Club
CHAPTER III. Mirages
CHAPTER IV. The Argonauts
CHAPTER V. The Call of the Birds
CHAPTER VI. The Perfume and the Light
CHAPTER VII. Man As a Worker
CHAPTER VIII. Rough Royalty
CHAPTER IX. More Royalty
CHAPTER X. Specimen Liars
CHAPTER XI. The Club Grows Poetical
CHAPTER XII. An Unbiased Judge
CHAPTER XIII. Sister Celeste
CHAPTER XIV. Trouble with the Expense Account
CHAPTER XV. Humor of the West
CHAPTER XVI. Trouble in the Club
CHAPTER XVII. Up in the Sheaves
CHAPTER XVIII. The Terrible Depths
CHAPTER XIX. The Dawn of Elysium
CHAPTER XX. Three Postscripts
"The pioneer! Who shall fitly tell the story of his life and work?
"The soldier leads an assault; it lasts but a few minutes; he knows thatwhether he lives or dies, immortality will be his reward. What wonderthat there are brave soldiers!
"But when this soldier of peace assaults the wilderness, no bugles soundthe charge; the forest, the desert, the wild beast, the savage, themalaria, the fatigue, are the foes that lurk to ambush him, and if,against the unequal odds, he falls, no volleys are fired above him; thepitiless world merely sponges his name from its slate.
"Thus he blazes the trails, thus he fells the trees, thus he plants hisrude stakes, thus he faces the hardships, and whatever fate awai