A Tramp Through The Bret Harte Country

A Tramp Through the Bret
Harte Country
by Thomas
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Title: A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country
Author: Thomas Dykes Beasley
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A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country

By Thomas Dykes Beasley

Author of "The Coming of Portola"

With A Foreward 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