A TRAMP THROUGH THE BRET HARTE COUNTRY

By Thomas Dykes Beasley

Author of "The Coming of Portola"

With A Foreword by Charles A. Murdock

     Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting,     The river sang below;     The dim Sierras, far beyond, uplifting     Their minarets of snow.     —Dickens in Camp.

     The Chapters     Foreword     Preface     Reminiscences of Bret Harte. "Plain Language From Truthful     James." The Glamour of the Old Mining Towns     Inception of the Tramp. Stockton to Angel's Camp. Tuttletown     and the "Sage of Jackass Hill"     Tuolumne to Placerville. Charm of Sonora and Fascination of     San Andreas and Mokelumne Hill     J. H. Bradley and the Cary House. Ruins of Coloma. James W.     Marshall and His Pathetic End     Auburn to Nevada City Via Colfax and Grass Valley. Ben     Taylor and His Home     E. W. Maslin and His Recollections of Pioneer Days in Grass     Valley. Origin of Our Mining Laws     Grass Valley to Smartsville. Sucker Flat and Its Personal     Appeal     Smartsville to Marysville. Some Reflections on Automobiles     and "Hoboes"     Bayard Taylor and the California of Forty-nine. Bret Harte     and His Literary Pioneer Contemporaries

     The Illustrations     Ruins of Coloma, a Name "Forever Associated With the Wildest     Scramble for Gold the World Has Ever Been"     Map of the "Bret Harte Country," Showing the Route Taken by     the Writer, With the Towns, Important Rivers, and County     Boundaries of the Country Traversed     The Tuttletown Hotel, Tuttletown; a Wooden Building Erected     in the Early Fifties     Mokelumne River; "Whatever the Meaning of the Indian Name,     One May Rest Assured It Stands for Some Form of Beauty"     "A Mining Convention at Placerville"     South Fork of the American River, Coloma. The Bend in the     River Is the Precise Spot Where Gold Was First Discovered in     California     Ben Taylor and His Home, Grass Valley, Showing the Spruce He     Planted Nearly Half a Century Ago     E. W. Maslin in the Garden of His Alameda Home     Angel's Hotel, Angel's Camp, Erected in 1852, as was the     Wells Fargo Building Which Faces it Across the Street     Main Hoist of the Utica Mine, Angel's Camp, Situated on the     Summit of a Hill Overlooking the Town     The Stanislaus River, Near Tuttletown, "Running in a Deep     and Splendid Canon"     Jackass Hill, Tuttletown. The Road to the Left Leads to the     Former Home of "Jim" Gillis     Home of Mrs. Swerer, Tuttletown. The Hotel and This Dwelling     Comprise All That Is Habitable of the Tuttletown of Bret     Harte     Main Street, Sonora, "So Shaded by Trees That Buildings Are     Half-hidden"     Sonora, Looking Southeast. "No Matter From What Direction     You Approach It, Sonora Seems to Lie Basking in the Sun"     Main Street, San Andreas, "During the Mid-day Heat, Almost     Deserted"     Metropolitan Hotel, San Andreas; in the Bar-room of Which     Occurred the "Jumping Frog" Incident     Mokelumne Hotel, on the Summit of Mokelumne Hill, and at the     Head of the Famous Chili Gulch     Placerville, the County Seat of El Dorado County, From the     Road to Diamond Springs     The Cary House, Placerville. "It Was Here That Horace     Greeley Terminated His Celebrated Stage Ride With Hank M                        
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