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I: From sea to sea (1889) -- 1: Shows how I came to America before my time and was much shaken in body and soul by what I felt and heard -- 2: How I got to San Francisco and took tea with the natives there -- 3: Shows how through folly I assisted at a murder and was proportionally afraid, the rule of the democracy and the despotism of the alien -- 4: (untitled) -- 5: Tells how I dropped into politics and the tenderer sentiments, contains a moral treatise on American maidens and an ethnological one on the Hubshi. Ends with a banquet and a type-writer -- 6: Takes me through Bret Harte's country, and to Portland with "old man California." Explains how two vagabonds became homesick through looking at other people's houses -- 7: Shows how I caught salmon in the Clackamas and clothed myself in purple and triumph -- 8: Discusses the shortcomings of Tacoma-on-the-boom and Seattle-after-the-fire. Introduces a heretic -- 9: Takes me from Vancouver to the Yellowstone National Park-with a mean opinion of myself and a meaner of rayments's tourists -- 10: Shows how Yankee Jim introduced me to Diana of the crossways on the banks of the Yellowstone, and how a German Jew said I was no true citizen. Ends with the celebration of the 4th of July and a few lessons therefrom -- 11: Shows how I entered Mazanderan of the Persians and saw devils of every colour, and some troopers. Hell and the old lady from Chicago. The captain and the lieutenant -- 12: Ends with the canyon of the Yellowstone, the maiden from New Hampshire, Larry, "wrap-up-his-tail" Tom, the old lady from Chicago, and a few natural phenomena, including one Briton -- 13: Of the American army and the city of the saints. The temple, the book of Mormon, and the girl from Dorset. An Oriental consideration of polygamy -- 14: How I met certain people of importance between Salt Lake and Omaha -- 15: Across the great divide, and how the man Gring showed me the garments of the Ellewomen -- 16: How I struck Chicago, and how Chicago struck me. Of religion, politics, and pig-sticking,-- and the incarnation of the city among shambles -- 17. How I found peace at Musquash on the Monongahela -- 18. Tells how the professor and I found the precious rediculouses and how they Chautauquacked at us. Puts into print some sentiments better left unrecorded, and proves that a neglected theory will blossom in congenial soil. Contains fragments of three lectures and a confession -- 19: Kipling's view of out defenceless coasts -- 20: Rudyard Kipling on Mark Twain -- II: From tideway to Tideway (1892-1895) -- 1: In sight of Monadnock -- 2: Across the continent (excerpt) -- 3: What Rudyard Kipling saw on his way back from Japan (excerpt) -- 4: On one side only -- 5: From a winter note-book (1895). |
