# The Overland Monthly/Volume 5

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THE
Overland Monthly
DEVOTED TO
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY.
VOLUME V.
AMS PRESS. INC.
New York, N.Y.
Reprinted 1965
AMS PRESS, INC.
New York, N.Y. 10013
MANUFACTURED IN THE U.S.A.
CONTENTS.
A Dark Night on Picket. Freeman S. Bowley
Alaska, Seal Islands of. Capt. C. M. Scammon
Aleutian Islands, The Capt. C. M. Scammon
All Things for the Best Josephine Clifford
American Princess, The Career of an Noah Brooks
Angora Goat, The John Hayes
At “Presidio” in War Time Mrs. M. B. Wyman
Australia, Sheep-Farming in John Manning
Big Trees, To the Agnes M. Manning
Black Cañon, Our Scout to George Gwyther, M.D.
Brook Farm, My First Visit to
California Garden, An Evening in a
Colima, An Evening and a Morning, in
Collectors and Collections Theodore F. Dwight
Confession of Crime—Its Value ‘ N. S. Dodge
Coral Sea, A Canoe-Cruise in the Charles Warren Stoddard.
Falls of the Shoshone, The Clarence King
Farming in Pajaro Valley John Hayes
Farmsley House, The Hilda Rosevelt
Feminine Philanthropy Hilda Rosevelt
First Impressions of the East James T. Watkins
Frontier Post and Country, A George Gwyther, M.D
Grandmother’s Story Clara B. Conant
Gray’s Peak — To It and Up It Rossiter W. Raymond
Idaho, Rough Times in .C. H. Miller
Imperial Prison, The Josephine Clifford.
Ixotle Andrew J. Grayson
Joe of Lahaina Charles Warren Stoddard.
Kansas, Walker’s Administration in John H. St. Matthew
Killarney, Two Days at Mrs. W. H. Bruner
Life in the Bush John Hayes
Lower Coast Counties, Through the FS. P. Caldwell
Manitoba—The Red River Country Taliesin Evans
Minnesota, Less Recent Hilda Rosevelt
Ry TR cc oicisntdvccce sathoaskesiesneciens W.R. Turnbull
Mother Hoxley
Mr. Ela’s Story
Mr. Sheds’ Courtship George B. Merrill
BeR: DNS PURGE, o neeccccyecssscssvsesecses F. Bret Harte
Norseland, A By-Way in Peter Toft
Northern Mexico, A Naturalist’s Rambies in (1) indrew F. Grayson
is 6 cncnsansoveussecesnenesceatsenkuendesbens Edward P. Stoddard
Potts, the Troubadour Leonard Kip
“ Pronunciamiento,” A W. R. Turnbull
Road-Making in the Tropics (I, II}....... Geneeeases OP vscccasetdannck trtcdassenisncnsases 238, 302
Sacramento Etchings . Socrates Hyacinth
Salt Lake City Frank H. Head
Sandy Bar, The Iliad of F. Bret Harte
San Diego and the Gold-Mines, At (I, I]).........20/ M.S. Croswell ​ San Francisco, Caravansaries of. Sibyls, The Last of the.. Spectre Bull of Salinas, The.. Spilled Milk.... St. Paul, In and About.. William M. Laffan ..N. S. Dodge........ Wm. C. Mead Staats. ..Mrs. James Neall ...Hilda Rosevelt..... ..Prentice Mulford.. E. A. Wallass.. Fosephine Clifford... Mr. Socrates Hyacinth Col. I. H. Hooper... Capt. C. M. Scammon William P. Gibbons, M.D. -Fosephine Clifford.... ..Ebenezer Knowlton.. 176 489 61 ... ...... 427 362 "The Bed of the River" .• 393 The Sabre of Honor...... The Three Pinks..... .....404 369 ........ Tom and His Wife... Twelve Days' " Absence Without Leave". Washington Territory, Lumbering in. Waysides of Nature (II)... Weser, A Day on the... 504 ..... 201 ........ ..... 55 153 ........ ........ 232 ..... Yosemite on Foot.... ........ 04 Yuba Hydraulic Mines (I, II).... Yuba, The........ Judson Farley..... - Judson Farley.... 134, 213 444
POETRY.
An Answer. A Hope..... Aspasia.... At the Hacienda. "Cicely "... Dickens in Camp. His Answer to "Her Letter". If Only...... My Artist.. Pansies .. Penelope Plain Language from Truthful James... Sail Ho!...... The Bleacher's Song. The Cocoa-Trce... To the Statue on the Capitol at Washington.. Violets......... With a Wreath of Laurel... ..Ina D. Coolbrith.... 162 ..Ina D. Coolbrith Herman G. Rogers... ... C. W..... .F. Bret Harte...... ..F. Bret Harte F. Bret Harte... ....... 474 543 .... 231 378 .... 90 ...... 576- 60 .... ..Ina D. Coolbrith ..Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt.. ...344 .Mrs. Helen Rich.... .F. Bret IHarte...... ..F.Bret Harte...... 512 ....... 189 287. ... Charles Warren Stoddard... 30 .J. Ricff..... .....Charles Warren Stoddard.. ...John James Piatt... ..Emelie Lawson ... ...Iua D. Coolbrith 311 ......443 404 113 256
CURRENT LITERATURE.
98 American Political Economy (Francis Bowen).. Books of the Month.... Chris and Otho Julie P. Smith). Essay on Divorce (Theodore D. Woolsey, D.D.)... Free Russia Wm. Hepworth Dixon). Geology and Physical Geography of Brazil (Ch. Fred. Hartt). John: A Love Štory (Mrs. Oliphant)..... Lifting the Veil... Light-Houses and Light-Ships (A. 1I. Davenport Adans). Lothair (Benjamin Disraeli)... Lost Sir Massingherd...... Man and Wite (Wilkie Collins Miss Van Kortland.......: Misunderstond Florence Montgomery Passages from tlhe English Note-Books of Nathane lia.th rne. Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade Queen Horten-e 1. Muhlbach). Recollections of Eton,...... Robert Greathouse (John Franklin Swift Sket hes of Creation (Alexander Winchell, L.L.D.). Saciety and S tude (Ralph Waldo Emerson The Andes and the Amaon (James Orton, M.A.).. The Rob Roy on the Jordan ). Macgregor). The Genial Showm un (Edward P. limgsta).. The Heart of the Cntineat Fit-11ngh Laullon.). The Life and Alvetures of James W. Mar halt, t' D serer of G ll i Cali. mia ien, . P'arsns). 39 The Mississippi Vall-y (ti. W. Firster, L.I.D.).. Private Life of Galilen..... The Seat of Empine Charles Carleton Cofin). The Writings of Anne Isabella Thas keray. Tom Brown at Oxford (Fhomas Hughes True to Herselr (F. W. Rohinsom)...... ..... 104, 200 ...... 486 198 390 ...... 583 391 199 ... 504 .. 192 .. Io3 291 ...... ....... .... ....... ... .......... 1 102 .......... .... 487 289 .....192 295 486 387 578 386 578 293 388 ..... ..... ..... 578 ....... 294