Smartsville to Marysville. Some Reflections on Automobiles and "Hoboes" Bayard Taylor and the California of Forty-nine. Bret Harte and His Literary Pioneer Contemporaries The Illustrations Ruins of Coloma, a Name "Forever Associated With the Wildest Scramble for Gold the World Has Ever Been" Map of the "Bret Harte Country," Showing the Route Taken by the Writer, With the Towns, Important Rivers, and County Boundaries of the Country Traversed The Tuttletown Hotel, Tuttletown; a Wooden Building Erected in the Early Fifties Mokelumne River; "Whatever the Meaning of the Indian Name, One May Rest Assured It Stands for Some Form of Beauty" "A Mining Convention at Placerville" South Fork of the American River, Coloma. The Bend in the River Is the Precise Spot Where Gold Was First Discovered in California Ben Taylor and His Home, Grass Valley, Showing the Spruce He Planted Nearly Half a Century Ago E. W. Maslin in the Garden of His Alameda Home Angel's Hotel, Angel's Camp, Erected in 1852, as was the Wells Fargo Building Which Faces it Across the Street Main Hoist of the Utica Mine, Angel's Camp, Situated on the Summit of a Hill Overlooking the Town The Stanislaus River, Near Tuttletown, "Running in a Deep and Splendid Canon" Jackass Hill, Tuttletown. The Road to the Left Leads to the Former Home of "Jim" Gillis Home of Mrs. Swerer, Tuttletown. The Hotel and This Dwelling Comprise All That Is Habitable of the Tuttletown of Bret Harte Main Street, Sonora, "So Shaded by Trees That Buildings Are Half-hidden"