Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter I: The Nomad Strain
Chapter II: An Explorer's Apprenticeship
Chapter III: A Fork in the Trail
Chapter IV: Toward the Setting Sun
Chapter V: The Wind of Discovery
Chapter VI: Beyond South Pass
Chapter VII: Western Star
Chapter VIII: The Road to India
Chapter IX: Strangers in a Strange Land
Chapter X: Rock upon Rock, Snow upon Snow
Chapter XI: The Great Valley
Chapter XII: Beyond the Desert
Chapter XIII: Odyssey's End
Chapter XIV: Following the Winds of Summer
Chapter XV: Mapping the California Trail
Chapter XVI: A Climate for Violence
Chapter XVII: The Turning Point
Chapter XVIII: The Time of the Bear
Chapter XIX: The Conquest of California
Chapter XX: The Man in the Middle
Chapter XXI: Prelude to Ordeal
Chapter XXII: Court-Martial
Chapter XXIII: Snows of Disaster
Chapter XXIV: Life in El Dorado
Chapter XXV: The Last Expedition
Chapter XXVI: Peaks of Glory, Valleys of Despair
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index