Afoot and alone
Subtitle: a walk from sea to sea by the southern route. Adventures and observations in southern California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, etc.
By: By Stephen Powers ...
Publisher: Columbian Book Company
Published: 1872
Place of publication: Hartford, Conn
Subjects: Overland journeys to the Pacific; Southwest, New -- Description and travel; Southern States -- Description and travel; Southwest, Old -- Description and travel; California, Southern -- Description and travel
Table of contents: label: CHAPTER I
pagenum: 19
title: Outfitting — Robert as Quartermaster — "Packin' a Shirt in a Hat" — My Dress and Equipments — Departure from Raleigh; label: CHAPTER II
pagenum: 34
title: The Turpentine-Makers — In the Piney-Woods — Meeting with a Freed-man — Sherman's Ash-Cakes — Southern Characteristics — A Roadside Cooper — Sam and Jim — Spectral Chimneys — My Cape Fear Ferryman — "I am not a Peddler" — Experiences at Jonesboro' — Graduating in Pine — Winter Scenery — Anecdote — The Cross-Roads Groceryman — A Southern Anthropometer — A Clay-Eater — Street Scenes in Fayetteville— An Old Shingle-Shaver—Hospitality in the Old North State— The Piney- Woods Cabin at Night — Religious Manifestations — The Piney Woods Man— The Women of the South— My Host's Wife; label: CHAPTER III
pagenum: 49
title: Among the Rice-Eaters — A High-Toned Southron — An Unskillful Waltz — Over the Little Pedee — Noble Plantations — "A Prodigious Screeching " — The Planter's Home — Carpetless Rooms — Footfalls of Poverty — The Cavalry Sergeant and the Tar-Heels — Looking for Lodgings — " We never Keep Peddlers " — On the Santee — A night with a Planter —Approach to Charleston — Talk with a "Sand-Hiller" — On the Battery — Reminiscences of Secession Times — Picture of a Planter's Mansion before the War — Another Picture — A Ruined Home — The Widow and Orphans — The Happy Freedmen — In the Overseer's Cabin — The Rice Negroes — The Marion Planters — After the Battle; label: CHAPTER IV
pagenum: 64
title: Over the Red Hills— A City of Shade and Silence— Farewell to the Atlantic — A Woman's Story — Along the Ogeechee — Cotton Trains — A Black City— A Pumfoozled Freedman— A Night at Captain Truhitt's — An Unkind Cut — By the Planter's Fireside — The Captain's Story — His Experience with Bummers — "Sherman Is Coming" — Ungrateful Slaves — The Little Pickaninny — Return of the Runaways — The Story of Old Shade— The Emblem of Poverty— Georgia in the War; label: CHAPTER V
pagenum: 77
title: Among the Cotton Planters — Across the Chattahoochee — Story of an Alabamian Planter — Harry and his Master — The Valley of the Alabama — In the Suburbs — Montgomery — View of the State House — On the Ferry-Boat at Selma — Description of a Planter's Home — Talks on the Veranda — Women of the Alabama Valley; label: CHAPTER VI
pagenum: 93
title: With the Yam-Eaters — A Mean Country — March Peepers — At Meridian — Drake's Story — Strange Superstition — Building a Cabin — A Win- some Legend — A Piney- Woods Village — The Meeting-House and Singing School — "Jest Jim" — Across the Pearl — A Mississippi Teuton — A Grotesque Hut and its Occupant — Approach to Vicksburg — Hallowed Ground — The Caves — The National Cemetery — The Hill City — Visit to Tamany Jones — The Primeval Forest — A Piney-Woods Character — The Red and the Blue — Draw-Bead College — The Dogs — Outside the Cabin— Inside— "Waal Now, I Sa-ay"—Story of Captain Jarnley — The Contrary Cannuck — Supper, and Afterwards; label: CHAPTER VII
pagenum: 107
title: On the Doleful Flats — Sherman's Track to Vicksburg — Across the Mississippi — The Peninsula — Tookey Smook — A Story of the Siege of Vicksburg — The Bayou Region — Crossing a Bayou — Deserted Villages — Sad Pictures — A Voodoo Priestess — Negro Superstitions — Tookey and the Goose — The Monroe Planters — The Red River — Shreveport — An Editor's Sanctum — The War of Races — The Poor Whites; label: CHAPTER VIII
pagenum: 119
title: In the Land of Oxen — Cotton-Wains and Their Drivers — The Tribes of Joshua — Portrait of a Texan — A Texas Norther — A Texan in Love — The Last Cotton-Field — Hail to the Prairies! — Meeting with a Cattle Hunter— A Norwegian Village — Trinity Forest — Texan Refugees — Waxahatchie— Waiting for the Train— Rangers and Ox-Drivers; label: CHAPTER IX
pagenum: 133
title: Over the Rolling Prairies— Catechism for Pups— Starting for California —An Unruly Pageant— A River of Horns— Hog- Wallows— Cross Timbers—Bill Snodgrass and the Ichthyosaurians— The Valley of the Brazos— Texan Grocery Stores— View near the Paloxy— Cattle Attacked by Wolves— A Rancho and its Surroundings— Rawhide— An Old Hermit— A Night Stampede— A Scene of Confusion— On the Run —An Awful Storm— In the Camanche Country— School Attacked by Indians— The Cow-Boys and their Training— On the Brazos Prairie; label: CHAPTER X
pagenum: 145
title: On the Windy Plain — Last Vestige of Civilization — Peg-Horn Gladiators —The Little Concho— The Old Sailor and the Mule— A terrific Nip— Fire in Camp— The Staked Plain— A Last Drink— The Start— Midnight- Restive Herds — Halt for Coffee — The Camanches!-The Doctor's gallant Charge — Approaching Day — Camanche Tracks — A forced March — Baby Emigrants — A sleepy Train — A Wild Walk — Alone on the Desert—Short of Water— A Pass of Peril— Antelopes— The Third Night — Exhausted — Rescued — Approaching the River — A Run for the Pecos — Appalling Spectacle — Drowning Cattle — A polite Negro Corporal — Spanish Ojos — An Altercation — Mud Forts — Negroes on Guard — The perplexed Sentinel — Magnificent Sunset — A Night Halt; label: CHAPTER XI
pagenum: 157
title: In Apache Land — A "Cullud Gal" — Sensation in the Negro Camp — Scaling Wash-Bowl Hill — Olympia Canyon — A Government Train — The Giant's Causeway of Texas — A Messenger — Waiting for Rain — Swallows — Fort Davis — Singular Phenomena — The Palmilla — Curious Spectacle — Tom and Fanny — Rain at Last — The Start — A Night Journey — Gorgeous Sunrise — Pushing for the Rio Grande — Encounter with the Apaches — The Soldier's Life on the Plain — Deserters and their Experiences; label: CHAPTER XII
pagenum: 168
title: First view of Mexico— Chihuahua Mountains — Encamped on the Rio Grande — Our Harlequin — Dave the Ranger — San Antone the Ox-tamer — The Young Emigrant— The Melon-Stealers— Mexican Retribution — Mexican Farmers— Sheep Dogs, and Their Charge — Rancheros and Peons — San Eleazario at Noon — A Drowsy Village— Mexican Beauties „ —Street Scenes— Fort Bliss— The Pass of the North— Last View of Texas; label: CHAPTER XIII
pagenum: 185
title: Among the Enameled Hills— A Mysterious Visitor— Indian Yells— The Organ Mountain — Lazoing a Steer — A Ranchero and His Spouse — A funny Sight— Breaking a Mustang— Fort Selby— Frightened by Indians — Dividing Cattle — Picturesque Scene — An Insulted Herdsman— The Chase — Crossing the Rio Grande — A Serenade — Horses Stolen — Mountain Storm — The Picture Galleries of New Mexico— Beautiful Scenery —Attack on Train— Apache Superstition — The Mirage — Nature's Cock-loft — A Mexican Fandango — Winking for a Partner — The Playas — An Enchanted Desert— The Belles of the Train— The Mexican of the Border—Shall We Annex Mexico?; label: CHAPTER XIV
pagenum: 201
title: A Family Plot — Gateway to Arizona — Climbing a Mountain — On the Summit — A narrow Escape — Apache Pass — A Night of Terror — Comic Elements — Cudjoe and the German — An Arizonian Apache Fighter — How Indian Affairs are Managed — An Apache Massacre — Wayside Inscriptions — Demoralized Caravan — The Chaparral City — The Fate of Tucson Pioneers — The Papago Indians — Life in Tucson — Gambling Scene — The Soldiers — Funny old Mexican; label: CHAPTER XV
pagenum: 211
title: Miseries of Emigrant Life — Midnight Start — The Santa Cruz — The Sentinel of the Desert — A Landmark — Surprised by Indians — Successful Strategy — A Disagreeable Captive — Escape — A good Omen and the Sequel — Another Fright — A Night on a Sage-Bush — Blue Water Station — The grumbling Keeper; label: CHAPTER XVI
pagenum: 226
title: Down the River of Despair — Sacaton — Pimo Villages — A man of Family —Squaws and Pappooses — Inside a Wigwam — Pimo Dolls — A Texan Emigrant in Arizona — Sad Incident — The Painted Rocks — Lunch with the Maricopas — Merry Savages — Grand Scenery — Twilight on the Desert — A Sleepless Night — A dreary Walk — The Estrella Mountains — Sunset — Starving for Water — Gila Bend Station; label: CHAPTER XVII
pagenum: 235
title: In the Home of the Heat— Down the Gila — The Impertinent Cayotes — "Oft in the Stilly Night"—Veteran Hunter— A Shot in the Dark— A Hideous Chasm — Massacre of an Emigrant Family — Taken for a Mule — Denizens of the River — An interesting Character — Love in the Desert — An odd Genius — The Predatory Cow — Arizonian Civilization- Apache Slaves — A Woman's Camp — Arizona City; label: CHAPTER XVIII
pagenum: 246
title: Walks on the Desert — Fort Yuma — The Colorado — Yuma Indians — A happy Event — Drifting Sands — Skeletons — Fate of a Deserter — Yankee Station-Keepers — A Walk by Moonlight — Approaching the Sierra Nevada — A Mysterious River — Sunrise at Carriza Station— A Fairy Spectacle — A Soldier Boy's Story — Vallecito Oasis — Diegeno Huts — Invited to Ride—"You Bet"—San Felipe Pass— View from the Mountains — Farewell to the Chaparral; label: CHAPTER XIX
pagenum: 263
title: Honey in Green Hills — Diegenos Village — Buying Pan-Cakes — In the Valley of San Felipe — California Birds and Flowers — Encounter with a Diegeno — An Impromptu Circus — A Fearful Adventure — An Amazed Vaquero — Amusing Incident — Forlorn Habitations — My Host at Temecula — A Silent Mexican — A Moonlight Night — One of the Forty- Niners — Peter Qnartz's Adventures — A Miner's Story — Flour Sacks vs. Biled Shirts — Early Mining Times — A Preacher in Camp — Gambling and the Result; label: CHAPTER XX
pagenum: 280
title: Wine in Dry Valleys — California Rivers — The Santa Ana — The Chino Plains — An Amusing Sight — About Blackbirds — A Night with a Mexican — The Corn-Huskers — Autumn Scenery — The Valley of San Jose — Roxy and Her Suitors — The City of the Angels — A Visit to the Wine-Cellars — Life in Los Angeles — Socrates Hyacinth in Trouble — Vineyards and Wine Making — Wine vs Whiskey — Tropical Fruits — On the Mustard Plains — The Mexican Shepherd — Starting for a Bear Hunt — Santa Susana Mountains — A Bear Hunter — Game Discovered— "Load for Your Life "—End of the Hunt; label: CHAPTER XXI
pagenum: 293
title: Coast Walks — An Immense Rancho — Inside the Hut — A Night with the Shepherds — California Girls — Early Days in California— The Native Inhabitants — The Fatal Gold-Discovery — First View of the Pacific — The Music of the Sea — My first Chinaman — A Day in Santa Barbara California Farmers — Story of James W. Marshall, the Original Gold Discoverer — Ruined by a Gold Mine; label: CHAPTER XXII
pagenum: 308
title: With the Shepherds — Gaviota Pass — Reminiscence of Fremont's Guide — Teamsters and Tramps — Mission Santa Ines — Inside the Old Church Adjacent Grog-Shops — Talk with a Stage-Driver — The Alfileria — Dry Sowing— A Dingy Town— The Hot Sulphur Springs— The Great Wool Growing Region — Sequestered Shepherds — A Child of Nature— Herding Sheep — New Sensations — The Humming Bird's Song — Old John and the Migueleno Boy — A Whistling Indian — Story of Jack Powers the Famous Brigand — The Influence of the Mines — Evidences of Poverty — The Large Land-Owners — About Trees — The Valley of the Salinas — Life of a Vaquero — The Chinese Cook — Blanket-Men — An Earth-quake — A Typical Californian — Mania for Wheat — A Wheat-Colored Maiden — Domestic Felicity — The Tale of an Ox-Tail; label: CHAPTER XXIII
pagenum: 318
title: Down in the Valley of Gardens — Interview with a Blanket-Man — An Agricultural Experiment — Redwood Villages — San Juan — Standing Treat — Wheat Fields — The Windmills — California Pumpkins — San Jose — A Noble Valley — Suburban Residences — Rural Life in California — The Laboring Classes — The Employers — The Story of the Seizure of Monterey by Commodore Sloat; label: CHAPTER XXIV
pagenum: 327
title: 1846 — The Stevenson Regiment — The Thomas H. Perkins — Incidents of the Voyage — Story and Fate of a Pioneer's Son — Victim of a Vigilance Committee — Approach to San Francisco — The Bay — Autumn Scenery — Mission Hill — Dolores — Lone Mountain — Then and Now — Our Ultimate City — California Children — The Chinese — "Grass Widows" — "Spiritual Widowers" — Local Characteristics — Sunset at the Golden Gate