LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
R. Pitcher Woodward
(Portrait) The traveler at the journey's end.
"I bade my friends farewell."
"We consumed a half hour in the gigantic task."
"I found the captive drinking with other jackasses."
"We tramped tired and footsore into the village."
"Mac could draw my luggage instead of carrying it."
"Mac's little legs would get stuck."
"Mac supervised the work."
"The only time I got ahead of him."
"I scrutinized his hat inquisitively."
"He accused me of attempting suicide."
"We made slow headway to the Mississippi.
"In this way I crossed that bridge of size."
"And I saw the streak of daylight."
"Mac was so slow that his shadow beat him to town."
"Over the Platte bridge, after blindfolding them."
"I killed my first rattlesnake."
"That was the town of Korty."
"Climbing Pike's Peak."
"He had caught a nice mess of trout."
"Trail through the timber."
"Independence Pass; one of the loftiest of the Continental Divide."
"Trail to Florisant."
"Two days of hard climbing to cross Western Pass."
"Through thickets, tangled roots and fallen trees."
"To swim and float on Salt Lake."
"Skull Valley desert, we stopped to feed and rest."
"The last and only drop."
"Just finished lunch when the possÉ arrived."
"Coonskin and I took shelter behind our donkeys."
"Through Devil's Gate, their panniers scraped the walls of the rocky gateway."
"Fired their revolvers in the air."
"Some Piute Indians who had camped close by."
"Playing Solitaire on Damfino's broad back."
"Began to plow snow toward Placerville.
"The cattle passed us, after we donks had broken the trail."
"Across on the exclusive Solano."
"I pointed toward the goal."
"The ferry approach in 'Frisco was choked with a rabble."
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