TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Scanty Knowledge of the Pacific Coast Fifty Years
Since - Story of "Sergas,"
by Esplandin - Titles to Immense Regions
Conferred by the Pope - Expeditions
for Discovery and Settlement - Sir Francis
Drake's Operations - Expeditions
Overland - Marvelous Stories of a Big
Canon - Expedition of Father Escalante.
Chapter 2: BIG CANON OF THE COLORADO. Lieutenant Whipple's
Expedition - Lieuten-
ant Ives' Expedition - First Attempt to
Explore the Canon - Land Party Organized
- One sight of the River - First
Exploration - Unwilling Venture - Consider the
situation - Death of One of the Parties -
Three Months in the Canon - Arrival at
Fort Colville - Exploration Made Under the
Direction of the Smithsonian
Institute - Indescribable Character of the
Stream - Loss of Boats and Provis-
ions - Death of a Portion of the Party -
Emergence of the Survivors - Geology
and climate.
Chapter 3: The Exiles of Loreto - Father Tierra's Methods of
Conversion - Death of
Father Tierra - Arrest of the Jesuits -
Midnight Parting - Permanent
Occupation of California - Missions in
Charge of Francisco Friars -
Character of Father Junipero - Exploring
Expeditions - Origin of the Name
of the Bay - Mission Dolores - Death of
Father Junipero.
Chapter 4: THE MISSIONS OF ST. FRANCIS. Their Moral and
Political Aspect - Domestic
Economy - The Establishments Described -
Secular and Religious Occupations
of the Neophytes - Wealth and Productions
- Liberation and Dispersion of the
Indians - Final Decay.
Chapter 5: DOWNFALL OF THE OLD MISSIONS. Results of Mexican
Rule - Confiscation
of the Pious Fund - Revolution Begun -
Events of the Colonial Rebellion - The
Americans Appear and Settle Things -
Annexation at Last.
Chapter 6: PRIMITIVE AGRICULTURE. Extent of the Mission Lands
- Varieties of Product -
Agricultural Implements and Means of
Working - A Primitive Mill - Immense
Herds and Value of Cattle - The First
Native Shop.
Chapter 7: Sir Francis Drake's Discoveries - The Fabulous
Straits of Anian - Arctic
Weather in June - Russian Invasion -
Native Animals - Various Facts and Events
Chapter 8: THE AMERICAN CONQUEST. Fremont and the Bear Flag.
Rise and Progress
of the Revolution - Commodores Sloat,
Stockton, and Shubrick - Castro and
Flores Drive Out - Treaty of Peace -
Stockton and Kearney Quarrel - Fremont
Arrested, etc.
Chapter 9: SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY FROM THE TIME CAPT. C. M. WEBER
FIRST SAW
IT IN NOVEMBER, 1841, UNTIL THE CLOSE OF
1847. By Frank T. Gilbert.
Captain C. M. Weber - Expeditions to
California, 1841 - Names of the Party -
Sutter's Fort - Hoza Ha-soos - San Jose -
French Camp or Weber Grant - Rev-
olutionary Designs of the Foreigners -
Treaty between Weber and His Sons -
How it Was Observed by Ha-soos - Fremont's
Expedition, 1844 - David Kelsey
- Thomas Lindsay - Policy of the
Foreigners - Weber and Micheltorena at San
Jose - John A. Sutter Aids Micheltorena -
A Revolutionary Document - The
"Bear Flag" - Attempt to Settle the Grant,
1846 - Isbel Brothers and Other Early
Settlers - Twins, Second Children Born in
Valley, 1847 - End of Stanislaus
City - First Marriage, 1847 - Village of
"Tuleburg" - William Gann, First Child
Born in 1847 - Wild Horse Scheme -
Resume.
Chapter 10: BIOGRAPHIC SKETCH OF GENERAL SUTTER. His Nativity
- Migration to
the American West - Arrival in
California - Foundation of Sutter's Fort -
Prosperity and Wealth of the Colony -
Decline and Ultimate Ruin - Retirement
to Hock Farm - Extract From Sutter's
Diary.
Chapter 11: THE KING"S ORPHAN. His Observations in the
Sacramento Valley in 1843 -
Indications of Gold - Life at Sutter's
Fort - Indian Gourmands - Wonderful
Fertility of the Land.
Chapter 12: SUTTER'S FORT IN 1846. Aspect of Sacramento
Valley - Sinclair's Ranch - A
Lady Pioneer - Captain Sutter at Home -
The Fort Described - Condition and
Occupation of the Indians - Farm
Products and Prices - Dinner With the
Pioneer - New Helvetia.
Chapter 13: THE HISTORY OF THE DONNER PARTY. Scene of the
Tragedy - Organiza-
tion and Composition of the Party -
Election of George Donner as Captain -
Hasting's Cut-off - Ascent of the
Mountains - Arrival at Donner Lake - Snow
Storms - Construction of Cabins -
"Forlorn Hope Party" - Captain Reasin P.
Tucker's Relief Party - "Starved Camp"
- Third Relief Party - Heroism and
Devotion of Mrs. George Donner - Fourth
Relief Party - The Survivors.
Chapter 14: THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD. Early Reports and
Discoveries - Marshall's
Great Discovery at Sutter's Mill - His
Account of the Event - Views of the
Newspapers of That Time - Political
and Social Revolution - Great Rush to
the Mines - Results - General Sutter's
Account of the Gold Discovery -
Building of Saw Mill.
Chapter 15: EARLY CONDITION OF THE REGION. Mountains
Unexplored by the
Spaniards - The Trappers - Fremont's
Passage of the Mountains in 1847 -
Battles With the Snow - The Indian's
Warning - A Glimpse of the Valley -
Subsisting on Horse Flesh - Arrival at
Sutter's Fort - Early Settlements - An
Immigration Party of 1844 - Captain
Truckee - Truckee River - Alone on the
Summit - Death of Captain Truckee -
Immigrants in 1846 - Discovery of
Gold on the Yuba.
Chapter 16: EARLY MINING HISTORY. Pre-American Gold
Discoveries - Spread of the
Gold Discovery - Beale's Expedition to
Washington - Great Excitement in
New York - First Mining in Placer
County - Claude Chana in Auburn Ravine -
Rich Dry Diggings, Auburn - Progress
of the Excitement - Exploring the
Rivers - Mines in the Winter of
1849-50 - Adventures of Pioneers - Murderer's
Bar - Buckner's Bar - Pioneer Mining
Experience - The "Glorious Days" of
1849 - Mining in 1850 - A Mining Claim
- Grand Fluming Enterprise - A Model
Saw-mill - Doctors, Lawyers, Divines
Mining - The Grand Finale - Marshal
Prospecting in Placer - Ohio
Prospectors - A Ghastly Discovery - In Memory -
"Yankee Jim" - Journal of a Pioneer -
Soldiers and Prospectors in 1849 -
Prices of 1849 - Prices in Auburn in
1849.
Chapter 17: EMIGRATION TO CALIFORNIA. Preparations For
Emigration - The Routes
to California - The Pacific Mail
Steamship Company - Arrivals at San
Francisco in 1849 - The Expectant
Argonaut - On the Isthmus - A Lesson in
Maritime Law - Sailing to San
Francisco - Crossing the Plains - An Overland
Journal - Population at the Close of
1849 - Domestic Habits of the Pioneers
- The Miner's Cabin - Housekeeping and
Cooking - Thrifty Characters - Mean-
ness and its Reward - First Dead in
Placer - A Homicide.
Chapter 18: ORGANIZATION OF STATE GOVERNMENT. The Government
Before the
Conquest - Colonial Governors of
California - The Government Ad Interim -
The Military Governors of California -
Calling a Constitutional Convention -
Meeting of the Convention - Delegates
From Sacramento District - First
State Election - Organization of
Counties - Sutter County - Story of a
Navigable Stream -Election of County
Officers - The First Session of Court -
The Court House at Oro - Election For
County Seat - Story by Judge Keyser
- Permanent Homes Appear - The
Governmental Organization.
Chapter 19: ORGANIZATION OF PLACER COUNTY. Increase of
Population - The Foot-
hill Towns - Placer County Boundaries
- Placer and Sutter Dividing Line -
Geography of the County - Election of
Officers - Contesting the Election -
Election of Legislative Officers
-Attempt to Divide the County - Opposition
Aroused - Dutch Flat Opposition - The
Washington County Advocates -
Meeting at Yankee Jim's - Convention
at Wisconsin Hill - The Boundary
Line - A Bear River Growl - Revival of
the Washington County Scheme -
Granite County - Donner County.
Chapter 20: POLITICAL HISTORY OF PLACER COUNTY. Composition
of Parties - How
To Tax the Mines - Organization of
Placer County - Abram Bronk - Campaign
of 1852 - Patrick Canney - Campaign of
1853 - Political Duels - The Slavery
Question in California - Campaign of
1854 - A Stormy State Convention -
Conventions and Nominations - First
and Only Whig Administration - Camp-
aign of 1855 - Native Americans, or
"Know-nothings" - Efforts to Elect a
Senate - Campaign of 1856 - The
Republicans - Sketches of Candidates -
W. W. Carperton - Samuel B. Wyman -
A. P. K. Safford - James O'Neil -
Charles King - Philip Stoner - Philip
W. Thomas - J. W. Spann - Eugene A.
Phelps - James M. Gaunt - Hudson M.
House - Percival C. Millette - Election
of Senators - Triumph of Broderick -
Acts for Placer.
Chapter 21: POLITICAL HISTORY OF PLACER COUNTY. Campaign of
1857 - The
Democracy United -
Democratic Combinations - Contempt for the Repub-
licans - Campaign of 1858 - Douglas
Democrats - Convention Held -
Republicans and Douglas Democrats
Combine - Eleventh Judicial District -
The Elections - A Portentous Omen -
The Legislature - Campaign of 1859 -
Horace Grosley - Broderick and Terry
Duel - M. S. Latham Elected Senator
- Legislation for Placer - James
Anderson - Campaign of 1860 - Threatening
Aspect of Parties - The Election -
Lincoln the President - James A.
McDougall Senator - A Stormy Session -
The Rebellion - Campaign of 1861 -
Success of the Republicans - Campaign
of 1862 - Three Parties in the Field
- Abolition of Slavery -
Constitutional Amendments Adopted - Campaign of
1863 - Democratic Song - "Long Hairs"
and "Short Hairs" United - Democrats
United - Judicial Election - Placer
County Matters - Campaign of 1864 -
Presidential Nominations - The
Election.
Chapter 22: POLITICAL HISTORY OF PLACER COUNTY. Campaign of
1865 - Death of
Lincoln -Split in the Republican Party
- Judicial Election - The Legislature -
Registry Law - Campaign of 1867 -
Political Changes - Meeting of Conven-
tions - The Election - Judicial
Election - The Legislature - Eugene Casserly
Senator - Presidential Campaign of 1868
- Republican Victory - Campaign of
1869 - Negro Suffrage - The Election -
Judicial Election - The Legislature -
Edgar M. Banvard - Campaign of 1871 -
The Election - Judicial Election 1871
- The Legislature - Sargent Senator -
Dunnam's Election - Campaign of 1872
1872 - Grant and Greeley - Questions at
Issue - The Election - Campaign of
1873 - "Dolly Vardens" - The Elections
- Judicial Election - The Legislature -
Senators Elected - Campaign of 1875 -
Complicated Parties - The Election -
Judicial Election 1875 - The
Legislature -The Debris Question - William M.
Crutcher - Campaign of 1876 -
Centennial Year - Presidential Election 1876.
Chapter 23: POLITICAL HISTORY OF PLACER COUNTY. Campaign of
1877 - Working-
men's Party - The Election of 1877 -
Judicial Election - Constitutional Conven-
tion - James T. Farley Senator -
Campaign of 1878 - Campaign of 1879 -
Constitution Adopted - Political
Campaign - The Election - State Officers -
Frank D. Adams - Presidential Campaign
of 1880 - The Election - Population
Of Placer - John C. Boggs - John Gould
Bisbee - W. B. Lardner.
Chapter 24: FINANCIAL HISTORY. Sutter County Debt - Financial
Conditions in 1852 -
Treasurer's Report 1852 - Court House
Ordered Built - Treasurer's Report
1853 - Taxable Property - Mining
Investments - Assessments in 1853 -
Treasurer's Report, December 1853 -
Common School Money - Hospital Fund
- Defective Revenue Laws - Grand Jury
Report, May 1854 - Grand Jury Report
August, 1854 - Difficulties in
Collecting Taxes - Sam Astin's Joke - A Tax -
Collecting Controversy - The Financial
Power - Grand Jury Report November,
1854 -Taxable Property - Comparative
Statement - Financial Reports
February, 1855 - Rate of Taxation -
Supervisors' Statement - The Increasing
Indebtedness - Supervisors' Statement
in September - Assessors' Report
1855 - Supervisors' Report 1856 -
Treasurer's Report 1856 - Unofficial
Statement - Accessors' Report 1856.
Chapter 25: FINANCIAL HISTORY. Board of Supervisors
February,1857 - Relief Measures
- Assessor's Report 1857 - Redemption
of County Warrants - Financial
Report 1858 - Reducing the Debt -
Assessor's Report 1858 - Supervisors'
Report February, 1859 - County Debt -
Assessment Roll 1859 - Supervisors'
Report 1860 - Reports and Taxes 1860 -
Finances in 1861 - Taxation in 1862
- The Finances in 1863 - Finances in
1864 - Contest With the Railroad for
Taxes - Tax Levy 1865 - Railroad
Assessment - Legal Distances - Taxation in
1866 - Tax Levy in 1867 - Central
Pacific Controversy - Great Wealth of the
Railroad Company - Assessment and Taxes
in 1865 - Robbing the Treasurer -
Taxation in 1869 - Exorbitant Bills -
Railroad Suits Compromised - Taxation in
1870 - Sale of the Railroad Stock -
Sources of Revenue - Taxes in 1871 -
Proceedings Against the Railroad
Company - Property in 1871 - William Van
Vactor.
Chapter 26: FINANCIAL HISTORY. Taxation in 1872 - Supreme
Court Decision - Large
Assessment - Railroad Assessment
Contested - Property in 1873 - Joseph P.
Hoge Engaged - The Financial Problem in
1874 - Railroad Troubles Continue
- Valuations and Taxation - Financial
Condition in 1875 - J. T. Ashley - The
Financial Condition in 1876 -
Compromise With Railroad Company - Sheriff
en officio Collector - William
Loring Munson - Assessment and Taxation in
1877 - Financial Condition in 1878 -
Property in 1879 - Financial Report in
1879 - A. J. Soule - Financial
Condition in 1880 - State Board of Equalization
- Finances in 1881 - Railroad
Litigation - Receipts and Disbursements -
Cause of Financial Embarrassment -
Conclusion - Joseph Walkup.
Chapter 27: MINING. Antiquity of Mining History - Ancient and
Modern Mining - Gold - Silver
- Copper - Iron - Coal - Australia -
California - Nevada - Idria Quicksilver Mine
- Character and Uses of Gold - Of
Silver - Of Copper - Of Iron - Tin -
Chromium - Tellurium .
Chapter 28: MINING: Placer County Mines - Crude Implements in
Early Mining - The Story
of a BATEA - Occurrence of the Gold -
River Mining - Temporary Structures -
Dry Diggings - Improvements in Mining -
Long Tom - Mining Ditches - The
Sluice - The Sluice Fork - Rifles -
Grizzly and Under Currents - Sluice Pave-
ments - Drift Mining - Hydraulic Mining
- Hydraulic Mining at Gold Run - Cement
Mills - Quartz Mining - Pioneer Quartz
Mining - Empire Hill - Pioneer Mill - Union
Mill - Placer Mill - Heath & Henderson
Mill - May & Co's Mill - Bay State Mill -
Preston & Worrell's Mill - Henson & Co's
Mill - Tom Seymour's Mill Silver
Excitement.
Chapter 29: MINING LAWS. Quartz Miners' Convention and Laws -
Auburn Quartz Mining
District - Laws of Auburn District -
Recommendations - Placer Mining Laws -
Laws of Concert Hill District -State
Convention of Miners - Proceedings of
Miners' Convention - United States
Mining Laws - Act of July 26, 1866 - Act of
July 9, 1870 - Act of May 11, 1872 -
Subsequent Amendments - Forms - Proof
Of Labor - Notice of Location - Rules
and Decisions - Obtaining Patents for
Mines - Adverse Claims - Agricultural
or Mineral Land - Aliens - Cross Lodes
- Tunnels.
Chapter 30: MINING. Mineralogical Education - Copper
Discoveries and Excitement - Lone
Star District - Auburn District -
Cox's District - Garden Bar District - On the
"Rampage" for Copper - High Prices for
Copper - New Copper Mining Towns
- Singular Rock - Copper Production -
The Excitement Abating - Iron Mines -
Iron Ore on Lovell's Ranch - Report of
the Geological Survey - The Iron
Mountain Company - Iron Mining in
Oregon - Practical Mining Commenced -
The Blast Furnace - The Hot Blast -
The Process of Smelting - Feeding the
Furnace - The Scene at a Casting - The
Ore and Ore Supply - The Fuel
Supply - Executive Orders - The Force
Employed - The Town of Hotaling -
What of the Future? - The Holland Mine
- Iron Product - Coal Mining - Potter's
Clay - California Clay Manufacturing
Company - Importance of Clay
Deposits - Chromium Mining.
Chapter 31: MINING. The Iowa Hill Divide - The Gravel
Formation - Altitudes on the Divide -
Mines on the Divide - Iowa Hill Mines
- Independence Hill Mines - Roach Hill
Mines - Morning Star Hill Mines -
Bird's Flat Mines - Strawberry Flat Mines -
Succor Flat Mines - Wisconsin Hill
Mines - Grizzly Flat Mines - Elizabeth Hill
Mines - Stevens' Hill Mines - Main
Ridge Mines - Canada Hill Mines - Quartz
Mines - Mines Having Stamp Mills -
Water Ditches - Shirt-tail Canon Quartz
Mines - Humbug Canon Mines Described
- Report on Mines - Mountain Gate
Mine - Hidden Treasure Mine - Michael
Harold Power - Various Formations
and Theories - A Hydraulic Mine.
Chapter 32: MINING. Quartz Discoveries Near Auburn - Rich
Strikes - Pluck Rewarded by
Luck - The Big Crevice - Dredging the
River - The St. Patrick Mine - The
Greene Mine - Rising Sun Mine - The
Banker Mine - The Forest Hill Divide -
Mining at Dutch Flat - Cedar Creek
Mining Company - Mining Phrases - The
"Glorious Days" of 49 - The Miner's
Lament - The Miner's Progress.
Chapter 33: AGRICULTURE. Early Efforts at Cultivation - The
Dry Valley Thought a Desert
- A Change in the Scene - The Pioneer
Fruit Planter - Claude Chana -
Pioneer Cultivators and Orchardists -
Early Ranches in the Valley -
Assessor's Report in 1855 -
Assessor's Report in 1856 - Fruit Trees - Vines
- Grain - Livestock - Flouring Mills
Required - Progress in 1857 - Ranch of
J. R. Nickerson - Spring Valley Ranch
- Assessor's Report in 1870 -
Successful Horticulturists - J. W.
Hulbert - An Unusual Frost.
Chapter 24: AGRICULTURE. Orange Culture - M. Andrews -
Foot-hill Fruits - Silk Culture -
Works and Life of B. Bernhard -
Productions of the Granite Hills - Cotton
Culture - Alfalfa, or Chill Clover -
Angora Goats - Agriculture in the Mountains
- William N. Lee - Statistical Report
for 1869 - Statistics for 1875.
Chapter 25: PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Placer County Schools in 1857 -
Schools of Placer Co. -
Office of County Superintendent -
Salary of County Superintendent - Misc.
Statistics - Teacher's Institute -
Alta District - Auburn District - Bath District -
Blue Canon District - Butcher Ranch
District - Central District - Christian
Valley District - Clipper Gap District
- Colfax District - Consolidated District -
Coon Creek District - Damascus
District - Daneville District - Dry Creek
District - Dutch Flat District -
Emigrant Gap District - Excelsior District - Fair
View District -Forest Hill District -
Franklin District - Gold Hill District - Gold
Run District - Iowa Hill District -
Lincoln District - Lone Star District - Michigan
Bluff District - Mount Pleasant
District - Mount Vernon District - New England
Mills District - Newcastle District -
Ophir District - Penryn District - Rock
Creek District - Rocklin District -
Roseville District - Sheridan District - Spring
Garden District - Sunny South
District - Todd's Valley District - Union District -
Valley View District - Van Trees
District - Lapsed Districts - Statistical Tables
- O. F. Seavey.
Chapter 26: RAILROADS. Traveling in "Old Times" - New York to
Boston in Four Days -
Anecdote of Stephenson - Early
Traveling in California - Strange Terminus to
A Railroad - First Locomotive in
America - A Historical Railroad Excursion -
California Central Railroad - Auburn
Branch Railroad - Sacramento, Placer
and Nevada Railroad - Transcontinental
Railroad Projected - Efforts of
Theodore D. Judah - Central Pacific
Railroad Company - Railroad Bill
Passed Congress - The Work Commenced
- Placer County a Stock-holder -
Address to the People - The Election
Contest - Progress of the Road - The
First Surprise - Great Energy in the
Work - Triumph of Engineering and
Finance - Nevada County Narrow Gauge
Railway - John B. Whitcomb.
Chapter 27: WAGON ROADS OF PLACER COUNTY. Roads in 1849 -
First Wagon in
Yankee Jim's - Emigrant Roads -
Emigrant Road of 1852 - Surveys in 1855 -
Placer County Emigrant Road -
Biographical Sketch of Captain Thomas A.
Young - Road Convention at Yankee
Jim's - List of Delegates - Speeches
Delivered - Resolutions Offered -
Last of the Emigrant Road Scheme - Placer
County and Washoe Turnpike -
Toll-roads, Ferries, and Bridges - Bear River
Bridge - Auburn Ravine Turnpike -
Mineral Bar Ridge and Road - Other Toll-
Roads Before 1860 - Auburn and Yankee
Jim's Turnpike - Lyon's Bridge and
Road - Lake Pass (Dutch Flat) Wagon
Road - Pacific Turnpike - Colfax and
Forest Hill Toll-Road - Auburn and
Forest Hill Turnpike - John Carlson.
Chapter 28: JOURNALISM. Reading For the Pioneers - Eastern
Newspapers for California
- The Placer Herald - Tabb Mitchell,
J. A. Filcher - Placer Democrat - Death of
John Shannon - The Auburn Whig - The
Placer Press - Hiram R. Hawkins -
The Iowa Hills News - Mountain Courier
- Placer Courier - Philip Lynch - Iowa
Hill Patriot - Dutch Flat Enquirer -
Democratic Signal - A Deplorable Tragedy
- The Union Advocate - The Stars and
Stripes - Placer Weekly Argue -
James B. McQuillan - T. Glancey -
Dutch Flat Forum - Placer Times - Colfax
Enterprise - Mountain Echo -
Roseville Farmer - The Advance - The
Caucasian - Tahoe Tattler - Placer
Times.
Chapter 29: SOCIETIES. The Order of Freemasonry - Speculative
Freemasonry - Masonry
On Pacific Coast - Remarkable Masonic
Display - Grand Lodge of California
- Masonry in Placer County - Eureka
Lodge, No. 16 - Gold Hill Lodge, No.
72 - Michigan City Lodge, No. 47 -
Illinoistown Lodge, No. 51 - Rising Sun
Lodge, No. 83 - Wisconsin Hill
Lodge, No. 74 - Clay Lodge, No. 101 - Ionic
Lodge, No. 121 - Granite Lodge, No.
222 - Tyre Lodge, No. 238 - Penryn
Lodge, No. 258 - O. W. Hollenbeck -
Royal Arch Masons - Libanue Chapter,
No. 17 - Olive Chapter, No. 23 -
Delta Chapter, No. 27 - Siloam Chapter,
No. 37 - Capt. Melvin S. Gardner -
Order of the Eastern Star - Odd Fellow-
ship in California - Odd Fellowship
In Placer County - Auburn Lodge, No. 7 -
Mountain Lodge, No. 14 - Placer
Lodge, No. 38 - Washington Lodge, No.
40 - Minerva Lodge, No. 55 -
Covenant Lodge, No. 73 - Olive Lodge, No. 81
- Valley Lodge, No. 107 - Colfax
Lodge, No. 132 - Gold Run Lodge, No. 139
- Roseville Lodge, No. 203 - Order
of Knights of Pythias - Washington Lodge
No. 1 - Sons of Temperance -
Independent Order of Good Templars -
Improved Order of Red Men - Patrons
of Husbandry - Ancient Order of
United Workmen - War Veterans.
Chapter 30: CHURCH, BENCH, AND BAR. An Eloquent Sermon - A
Financial Sermon -
Church Organization - Mormonism in
Auburn - James E. Hale - The Bench
and Bar - The Judiciary - District
Judges - Superior Judge - County Judges -
District Attorneys - Attorneys
Registered in Placer County - W. H. Bullock -
C. A. Tuttle.
Chapter 31: THE CRIMINAL RECORD: The Rarity of Crime - The
First Highway Robbery -
Execution of Robert Scott - Scott's
Last Words - Execution of Johnson at
Iowa Hill - A Law-maker,
Law-breaking - James Freeland Hanged -
Execution of Joseph Bradley - Murder
and Lynching at Auburn - Robbery and
Battle - "Rattlesnake Dick" - Dick
Changes His Location - The Robber Gang
- Robert of Well's Fargo & Co's
Express - Record of George Skinner - Dick
and a New Gang - Dick's Hatred of
John C. Boggs - Escape From Jail -
Robberies by the Gang - Phillips, of
the Mountaineer House - Mysterious
Death of a Prisoner - Death of
"Rattlesnake Dick" - An Affecting Letter - The
Last of the Tragedy - Chinamen
Slaughter a Family - The Chinese Expelled
From Rocklin - Expedition After Ah
Sam - Discovery and Death of the
Murderer - Murder by Indians -
Wrecking a Railroad Train - Singular
Reveration of Murder - A Tragic End
- Homicides and Robberies.
Chapter 32: MILITARY. First Military Organization - The
Miner's Guard - State Militia -
Placer Rifles - The War of the
Rebellion - "I Wish I Was In Dixie's Land" -
First Company for the War - Camp
Sigel - Defending Colonel Forman -
Movements of the Volunteers -
Murders by Secessionists - End of the War -
Grand Army of the Republic.
Chapter 33: DESTROYED BY FIRE. Ophir Burned - Sundry Fires -
Great Fires in Auburn -
Iowa Hill Burned - Michigan Bluff
Destroyed -Fires Again in Auburn - Iowa
Hill Again Burned - Dwelling Burned
- Fire At Rattlesnake - Destructive Con-
flagrations in Auburn -
Flouring-Mill Burned - Buildings Burned - Hotels
Burned at Rocklin - Fire at Auburn
Depot - More Fires - Empire Mill Burned -
Incendiary Fire in Auburn -
Dwellings Burned - Hoisting Works Burned - Saw-
mill and Lumber Destroyed - Fire at
Forest Hill - Destructive Fire at Dutch
Flat - Round House and Locomotives
Burned - Colfax in Ashes - Residence
of J. C. Boggs Burned - Hotel Burned
- Incendiarism - Burning at Lincoln -
Barn and Horses Burned - Serious
Loss at Lincoln - Residence Destroyed -
The Aggregate Loses - Later Fires in
Auburn.
Chapter 34: REMINISCENCES OF ILLINOISTOWN. Site of
Illinoistown - Alder Grove -
Mining on the River - The Pioneer
Settlers - Landing at Sacramento - First
Prospecting Experience - The Mining
Lesson Learned - Generosity and
Gratitude - Seeking Shelter -
Indians - Dastardly Robbery and Bloodless
Battle - Pursuit of the Indians -
First Military Company Organized - Campaign
Against the Savages - A Frontier
Picture - The Camp Receives its Name -
The Pioneer Family - First Fruit
Culture - Chivalrous Pioneers - Houses of
Entertainment - Rescued From the
Snow - An Exhausted Traveler - In the
Spring of 1850 - Wing Dams in the
River - Result of Mining - Early Physical
Features - Pike County Represented.
Chapter 35: TOWNS AND LOCALITIES. Alta - Antelope - Applegate
- Auburn - Great Fires
- List of Losses - Incorporation of
Auburn - A Railroad Town - Fare Reduced -
A Business View - Old Settlers -
Water Supply - Great Freshet - William
Ambrose - A. F. Boardman - James
Borland - Dr. J. B. Crandall - C. C.
Crosby - Alexander Lipsett - D. W.
Lubeck - T. M. Todd, M. D. - Antoine
Canon - Barnes Bar - A Glimmer of the
Great Rebellion - Barrett's Store - A
Death Struggle - Bath.
Chapter 36: TOWNS AND LOCALITIES. Bogus Thunder - Brushy
Canon - Butcher Ranch -
Cisco - Colfax - Darius V. Norton -
Clipper Gap - Damascus - Deadwood -
Dutch Flat - Henry A. Frost - Herman
R. Hudepohl - Frytown - Duncan Canon
- Fort Trojan - James W. Chinn - Gray
Horse Canon - Humbug Canon -
Johnson's Ranch - Manzanita Grove - Newtown -
Grizzly Flat - Lincoln -
Peter Ahart - Isaac Stonecipher -
Sheridan - Roger's Shed - Shirt-tail Canon -
Sunny South - Emigrant Gap - Forest
Hill - J. G. Garrison - William Rea - Gold
Hill - Gold Run -Iowa Hill - Dr.
Oliver H. Petterson - Michigan Bluff - Newcastle
- Ophir - Penryn - Griffith Griffith
- Placer County Granite - Elisha Grant -
Rocklin - W. Dana Perkins - Roseville
- Todd's Valley - First Shaft in Todd's
Valley - Alfred A. Pond - Nicolas
Quirolo - Wisconsin Hill - Yankee Jim's.
Chapter 37: RIVER BARS. VALLEYS. LAKES. ANIMALS. ETC. The Old
River Bars - Old
Time Improvements - The Rivers in
Their Purity - Along the Southern Bound-
ary - The Hunter's Home - Tahoe City
- Lake Tahoe - Lake Tahoe's Name -
The Georgetown Snag - Mountain Lake
- Mountain Peaks - Mountain
Valleys - Squaw Valley - French
Meadows - Picayune Valley - Soda Springs
Valley - American Valley - Animals -
An Amphibian Mouse - Unclassified Big
Trees - Mining on Bear River in
1849.
Chapter 38: OBITUARIES OF PIONEERS. PATRONS DIRECTORY.
Transcribed by
Sally Kaleta