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Death Valley in ’49

CHAPTER I
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Struggling Along .-- Pulling the Oxen Down the Precipice [Illustrated.]--Making Raw-hide Moccasins .-- Old Brigham Lost and Found .-- Dry Camps .-- Nearly Starving .-- Melancholy and Blue .-- The Feet of the Women Bare and Blistered.--"One Cannot form an Idea How Poor an Ox Will Get."-- Young Charlie Arcane very Sick .-- Skulls of Cattle .-- Crossing the Snow Belt .-- Old Dog Cuff .-- Water Dancing over the Rocks .-- Drink, Ye Thirsty Ones .-- Killing a Yearling.--- See the Fat .-- Eating Makes Them Sick .-- Going down Soledad Canon--A Beautiful Meadow .-- Hospitable Spanish People .-- They Furnish Shelter and Food .-- The San Fernando Mission .-- Reaching Los Angeles .-- They Meet Moody and Skinner .-- Soap and Water for the First Time in Months .-- Clean Dresses for the Women .-- Real Bread to Eat .-- A Picture of Los Angeles .-- Black-eyed Women .-- The Author Works in a Boarding-house .-- Bennett and Others go up the Coast .-- Life in Los Angeles .-- The Author Prepares to go North.
CHAPTER XII.

Dr.McMahon's Story .-- McMahon and Field, Left behind with Chief Walker, Determine to go down the River .-- Change Their Minds and go with the Indians .-- Change again and go by themselves .-- Eating Wolf Meat .-- After much Suffering they reach Salt Lake .-- John Taylor's Pretty Wife .-- Field falls in Love with her .-- They Separate .-- Incidents of Wonderful Escapes from Death.
CHAPTER XIII.

Story of the Jayhawkers .-- Ceremonies of Initiation--Rev.
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Brier .-- His Wife the best Man of the Two .-- Story of the Road across Death Valley .-- Burning the Wagons .-- Narrow Escape of Tom Shannon .-- Capt.
Ed Doty was Brave and True .-- They reach the Sea by way of Santa Clara River .-- Capt.

Haynes before the Alcalde .-- List of Jayhawkers.
CHAPTER XIV.


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