{"product_id":"2940014927895","title":"ROUGHING IT","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003eMy Brother appointed Secretary of Nevada--I Envy His Prospective\u003cbr\u003eAdventures--Am Appointed Private Secretary Under Him--My Contentment\u003cbr\u003eComplete--Packed in One Hour--Dreams and Visions--On the Missouri River\u003cbr\u003e--A Bully Boat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003eArrive at St. Joseph--Only Twenty-five Pounds Baggage Allowed--Farewell\u003cbr\u003eto Kid Gloves and Dress Coats--Armed to the Teeth--The \"Allen\"--A\u003cbr\u003eCheerful Weapon--Persuaded to Buy a Mule--Schedule of Luxuries--We Leave\u003cbr\u003ethe \"States\"--\"Our Coach\"--Mails for the Indians--Between a Wink and an\u003cbr\u003eEarthquake--A Modern Sphynx and How She Entertained Us--A Sociable Heifer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003e\"The Thoroughbrace is Broke\"--Mails Delivered Properly--Sleeping Under\u003cbr\u003eDifficulties--A Jackass Rabbit Meditating, and on Business--A Modern\u003cbr\u003eGulliver--Sage-brush--Overcoats as an Article of Diet--Sad Fate of a\u003cbr\u003eCamel--Warning to Experimenters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.\u003cbr\u003eMaking Our Bed--Assaults by the Unabridged--At a Station--Our Driver a\u003cbr\u003eGreat and Shining Dignitary--Strange Place for a Frontyard\u003cbr\u003e--Accommodations--Double Portraits--An Heirloom--Our Worthy Landlord\u003cbr\u003e--\"Fixings and Things\"--An Exile--Slumgullion--A Well Furnished Table--The\u003cbr\u003eLandlord Astonished--Table Etiquette--Wild Mexican Mules--Stage-coaching\u003cbr\u003eand Railroading\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V.\u003cbr\u003eNew Acquaintances--The Cayote--A Dog's Experiences--A Disgusted Dog--The\u003cbr\u003eRelatives of the Cayote--Meals Taken Away from Home\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI.\u003cbr\u003eThe Division Superintendent--The Conductor--The Driver--One Hundred and\u003cbr\u003eFifty Miles' Drive Without Sleep--Teaching a Subordinate--Our Old Friend\u003cbr\u003eJack and a Pilgrim--Ben Holliday Compared to Moses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII.\u003cbr\u003eOverland City--Crossing the Platte--Bemis's Buffalo Hunt--Assault by a\u003cbr\u003eBuffalo--Bemis's Horse Goes Crazy--An Impromptu Circus--A New Departure\u003cbr\u003e--Bemis Finds Refuge in a Tree--Escapes Finally by a Wonderful Method\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII.\u003cbr\u003eThe Pony Express--Fifty Miles Without Stopping--\"Here he Comes\"--Alkali\u003cbr\u003eWater--Riding an Avalanche--Indian Massacre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX.\u003cbr\u003eAmong the Indians--An Unfair Advantage--Laying on our Arms--A Midnight\u003cbr\u003eMurder--Wrath of Outlaws--A Dangerous, yet Valuable Citizen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X.\u003cbr\u003eHistory of Slade--A Proposed Fist-fight--Encounter with Jules--Paradise\u003cbr\u003eof Outlaws--Slade as Superintendent--As Executioner--A Doomed Whisky\u003cbr\u003eSeller--A Prisoner--A Wife's Bravery--An Ancient Enemy Captured--Enjoying\u003cbr\u003ea Luxury--Hob-nobbing with Slade--Too Polite--A Happy Escape\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XI.\u003cbr\u003eSlade in Montana--\"On a Spree\"--In Court--Attack on a Judge--Arrest by\u003cbr\u003ethe Vigilantes--Turn out of the Miners--Execution of Slade--Lamentations\u003cbr\u003eof His Wife--Was Slade a Coward?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XII.\u003cbr\u003eA Mormon Emigrant Train--The Heart of the Rocky Mountains--Pure\u003cbr\u003eSaleratus--A Natural Ice-House--An Entire Inhabitant--In Sight of\u003cbr\u003e\"Eternal Snow\"--The South Pass--The Parting Streams--An Unreliable Letter\u003cbr\u003eCarrier--Meeting of Old Friends--A Spoiled Watermelon--Down the\u003cbr\u003eMountain--A Scene of Desolation--Lost in the Dark--Unnecessary Advice\u003cbr\u003e--U.S. Troops and Indians--Sublime Spectacle--Another Delusion Dispelled\u003cbr\u003e--Among the Angels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIII.\u003cbr\u003eMormons and Gentiles--Exhilarating Drink, and its Effect on Bemis--Salt\u003cbr\u003eLake City--A Great Contrast--A Mormon Vagrant--Talk with a Saint--A Visit\u003cbr\u003eto the \"King\"--A Happy Simile\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIV.\u003cbr\u003eMormon Contractors--How Mr. Street Astonished Them--The Case Before\u003cbr\u003eBrigham Young, and How he Disposed of it--Polygamy Viewed from a New\u003cbr\u003ePosition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XV.\u003cbr\u003eA Gentile Den--Polygamy Discussed--Favorite Wife and D. 4--Hennery for\u003cbr\u003eRetired Wives--Children Need Marking--Cost of a Gift to No. 6\u003cbr\u003e--A Penny-whistle Gift and its Effects--Fathering the Foundlings\u003cbr\u003e--It Resembled Him--The Family Bedstead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVI\u003cbr\u003eThe Mormon Bible--Proofs of its Divinity--Plagiarism of its Authors\u003cbr\u003e--Story of Nephi--Wonderful Battle--Kilkenny Cats Outdone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVII.\u003cbr\u003eThree Sides to all Questions--Everything \"A Quarter\"--Shriveled Up\u003cbr\u003e--Emigrants and White Shirts at a Discount--\"Forty-Niners\"--Above Par--Real\u003cbr\u003eHappiness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVIII.\u003cbr\u003eAlkali Desert--Romance of Crossing Dispelled--Alkali Dust--Effect on the\u003cbr\u003eMules--Universal Thanksgiving\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIX.\u003cbr\u003eThe Digger Indians Compared with the Bushmen of Africa--Food, Life and\u003cbr\u003eCharacteristics--Cowardly Attack on a Stage Coach--A Brave Driver--The\u003cbr\u003eNoble Red Man\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XX.\u003cbr\u003eThe Great American Desert--Forty Miles on Bones--Lakes Without Outlets\u003cbr\u003e--Greely's Remarkable Ride--Hank Monk, the Renowned Driver--Fatal Effects\u003cbr\u003eof \"Corking\" a Story--Bald-Headed Anecdote\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 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