Mountains and molehills; or, Recollections of a burnt journal
By: by Frank Marryat ; with illustrations by the author
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Published: 1855
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
Subjects: Gold discoveries; Description and travel
Other titles: Mountains and molehills.
Notes: Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-24 at end.
Table of contents: label: CHAPTER I
pagenum: 1
title: Chagres River — Curiosity — Isthmus of Panama — Washington Hotel- Ants — A Native of Virginia — Gold Train — Robbery — Panama Belts — An Emigrant Ship — An Affecting Preacher — San Francisco; label: CHAPTER II
pagenum: 21
title: A Great Country — Improvement — Adventurers — Drinking-Saloons — The Old Judge — Banks — Mine Speculators — Gambling Houses — "Don't Shoot"—Climate— High and Dry; label: CHAPTER III
pagenum: 39
title: Benicia — Barnes — A Mad Bloodhound — His Death — Grasshoppers — Don Raymond — A Blessed City — Wicked Mules — "Camping Out" — Napa — Fourth of July — Agriculturists — Sonoma — Competition —An Irascible Bull; label: CHAPTER IV
pagenum: 58
title: Spanish Grants — Squatters — Squatter Fights — A Spanish Ranche — Good Quarters — Fleas — Vanity — Vaccaros — Quilp — English Saddles— Antelope Hunt— Rattle-Snakes — Quilp Waltzes — Californian Horses — Saddles — Horse-Breaking — A Tame Horse; label: CHAPTER V
pagenum: 78
title: Spanish Priests — Indians — Quilp forgets himself — Habits of Native Californians — Father Bartoleméo— The Lasso — Good Riders — Cattle Branding — Raymond provides Mules — Russian River — We Encamp — Saw-mill — I propose to "Squat"; label: CHAPTER VI
pagenum: 97
title: The Little Valley— Three Martyrs— Mountain Life— The Poor Does— Castor-oil — A Sick Dog — The Carpentaro — Grey Squirrel — Digger Indians — Red-wood Tree — American Rifles — Grizzly Bear Hunt — Sheldon Wounded — Difficulty in Killing the Bear — Habits of the Bear— A Thief; label: CHAPTER VII
pagenum: 122
title: Deer Hunting— Wild Bulls — Wild Fowl — A Duck Gun — Driving an Ox-Team — I Reflect — An Estampede — The Tiger Cat — Rainy Season — Indian Fires — Wasps — We are Robbed by the Indians — I kill a Bear — Crossing a Swollen River; label: CHAPTER VIII
pagenum: 144
title: Quilp departs for the South — San Luis — Ramsey — I am left for Dead — The Early History of California — Discovery of San Francisco — Spanish Missions — A Digression — Digression, continued — A Rainy Season — A Little Crab; label: CHAPTER IX
pagenum: 164
title: The Old Crab-Catcher — Mr Warren — American Friendship — The American Press — Education in America — Americans Good Colonists— Californian Correspondence; label: CHAPTER X
pagenum: 180
title: Long Wharf — Clipper Ships — Chinese Emigrants — The May Fire — An Exciting Scene — Iron Houses — Vallejo — The Coyote — Wild Geese; label: CHAPTER XI
pagenum: 197
title: Coyote Hunting — My Dominions are Invaded — Thomas kills a Bear — A Trial of Strength — Rowe's "Lot" — Choctaw — Elk — A Butchery —Rough Life— Fertility of the Soil; label: CHAPTER XII
pagenum: 216
title: Another Fire — My Geological Friend — "Burnt Out" — Sacramento — Levee — Hulks — Rats — Vigilance Committee — Start for Volcano — Crocket— "Right Side Up"; label: CHAPTER XIII
pagenum: 231
title: An Old She-goat — Our Mineralogist — Gold Diggers — Murderer's Bar — The Theorist puzzled — Mining Laws — Jumping Claims— The Miner's Life — "Let her slide" — Hostile Indians— We are disgusted — Fire-proof Houses; label: CHAPTER XIV
pagenum: 218
title: Joe Bellow — Stockton — A Bear Trapper— Bear and Bull Fights — An Uneasy Bear — Californian Inns — Natural Roads — Good Driving — I Kill a Flea — Sonora —The Evening commences — French Emigrants—A Drinking Bar — Number Eighty— A Corral and a Moral; label: CHAPTER XV
pagenum: 269
title: The Gold Mine — The Innocence of Sonora — Sunday in Sonora — Selling a Horse — Carrying Weapons — Bob — We leave Vallejo — We are "Bound to go"— The Shadow of a Crow; label: CHAPTER XVI
pagenum: 286
title: I explain to the Patient Reader — Pioneers — A Lady's Boot — Main-spring — Mexican Robbers — Victims of Prejudice — Works on America — Two Pigs — Power of the Human Will; label: CHAPTER XVII
pagenum: 304
title: Yield of Gold — Its Duration — Mormon Gulch — The Distribution of Gold —Tunnelling — Damming Rivers — Holden's Garden — Energy in the Mines — Quartz Mines — Quartz Mining successful — The Author gets out of his Depth; label: CHAPTER XVIII
pagenum: 323
title: Transport Machinery to the Mine — The Carpenter Judge, and Constable Rowe— Cut-throat Jack — Greasers —French Miners — John Chinaman — Chinese Ferocity — The Feast of Lanterns — Chinese Despotism — False Sympathy; label: CHAPTER XIX
pagenum: 341
title: The Firemen of San Francisco — "We strive to Save" — A Barber's Saloon — Oysters — Places of Amusement — A Pickled Head — Shooting on Sight; label: CHAPTER XX
pagenum: 356
title: Rat-Catchers — Drays — Crested Partridge— A Marvellous Story — Sailors in the Mines -A Verdict — The Quartz has the best of it — I leave Tuttle-tovvn; label: CHAPTER XXI
pagenum: 373
title: Advice to Emigrants — Gold Countries— Self-Doctoring — Advice continued — I arrive at Stockton; label: CHAPTER XXII
pagenum: 387
title: Elections — Executions — Reforms — Exiles — "Know Nothings" — Testimonials — Speaking Trumpets — Ocean Steamers — Life-Buoys — Air-Boats — Confidence necessary — Fitting a Raft — A Suggestion; label: CHAPTER XXIII
pagenum: 406
title: "Hercules" fails — Land Crabs — Mr Bobbins — Rushing the Ship — New York; label: CHAPTER XXIV
pagenum: 417
title: Yellow Fever — A Wooden Head — Hard Times — A Gale — We Spring a Leak— Acapulco — Smuggling — Cholera — Conclusion; title: APPENDIX
pagenum: 433