Lead Mining .-- Hears about Gold in California .-- Gets the Gold Fever .-- Nothing will cure it but California .-- Mr.Bennett and the Author Prepare to Start .-- The Winnebago Pony .-- Agrees to Meet Bennett at Missouri River .-- Delayed and Fails to Find Him .-- Left with only a Gun and Pony .-- Goes as a Driver for Charles Dallas .-- Stopped by a Herd of Buffaloes .-- Buffalo Meat .-- Indians .-- U.S.

Troops .-- The Captain and the Lieutenant .-- Arrive at South Pass .-- The Waters Run toward the Pacific .-- They Find a Boat and Seven of them Decide to Float down the Green River.
CHAPTER VIII.

Floating down the River .-- It begins to roar .-- Thirty Miles a Day .-- Brown's Hole .-- Lose the Boat and make two Canoes .-- Elk .-- The Canons get Deeper .-- Floundering in the Water .-- The Indian Camp .-- Chief Walker proves a Friend .-- Describes the Terrible Canon below Them .-- Advises Them to go no farther down .-- Decide to go Overland .-- Dangerous Route to Salt Lake .-- Meets Bennett near there .-- Organize the Sand Walking Company.
CHAPTER IX.

The Southern Route .-- Off in Fine Style .-- A Cut-off Proposed .-- Most of Them Try it and Fail .-- The Jayhawkers .-- A New Organization .-- Men with Families not Admitted .-- Capture an Indian Who Gives Them the Slip .-- An Indian Woman and Her Children .-- Grass Begins to Fail .-- A High Peak to the West .-- No Water .-- An Indian Hut .-- Reach the Warm Spring .-- Desert Everywhere .-- Some One Steals Food .-- The Water Acts Like a Dose of Salts .-- Christmas Day .-- Rev.J.W.

Brier Delivers a Lecture to His Sons .-- Nearly Starving and Choking .-- An Indian in a Mound .-- Indians Shoot the Oxen .-- Camp at Furnace Creek.
CHAPTER X.A Long, Narrow Valley .-- Beds and Blocks of Salt .-- An Ox Killed .-- Blood, Hide and Intestines Eaten .-- Crossing Death Valley .-- The Wagons can go no farther .-- Manley and Rogers Volunteer to go for Assistance .-- They Set out on Foot .-- Find the Dead Body of Mr.Fish .-- Mr.
Isham Dies .-- Bones along the Road .-- Cabbage Trees .-- Eating Crow and Hawk .-- After Sore Trials They Reach a Fertile Land .-- Kindly Treated .-- Returning with Food and Animals .-- The Little Mule Climbs a Precipice, the Horses are Left Behind .-- Finding the Body of Captain Culverwell .-- They Reach Their Friends just as all Hope has Left Them .-- Leaving the Wagons .-- Packs on the Oxen .-- Sacks for the Children .-- Old Crump .-- Old Brigham and Mrs.Arcane .-- A Stampede [Illustrated.]--Once more Moving Westward.--"Good-bye, Death Valley." CHAPTER XI.