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  Portland, Me., Eastern Argus, 398, 525

  Portland, Me., Transcript, 83, 525

  Portland, Ore., 172

  Postal Service Act of 1792, 63

  Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 471

  Powers, Hiram, 213

  Powers, Ron, xiv, xxv, xxvi, 32, 340

  practical jokes, xxi, 238-39, 361-62, 504

  Pratt & Whitney, 453

  Pratt, Mary Louise, 436

  Prevost, Louis, 364

  Price, Sterling, 130, 134, 184

  Pride of Utah Mine, 157, 160-61

  Pride, Sam, 294, 358

  Prime, William C., 427, 428, 430, 468

  Prince and the Pauper, The, xxii, 22, 85, 179-80, 284, 395, 519, 574n7

  Printers’ Free Library and Reading Room, 77

  “Private Habits of Horace Greeley,” 517

  “Private History of a Campaign That Failed, The,” xiv, 86, 127, 131, 132, 133, 135

  “Private History of the ‘Jumping Frog’ Story, The,” 300

  Proctor, Joseph, 376

  profanity, 406-07, 483, 494

  Providence Herald, 521

  Providence Journal, 525

  Providence Press, 388, 398

  Providence, R.I., 521

  Pudd’nhead Wilson, The Tragedy of, 7, 12, 15, 17, 22, 50, 54, 193, 208, 214, 257, 269, 294, 519

  Putnam, Avery D., 550-51

  Putnam, Charles A. V., 216

  Putnam’s, 345

  Pyramid Lake War, 143

  Q

  Quaker City (ship), xvi, xxiii, xxv, xxix, 106, 283, 317, 379-81, 393, 394, 399-401, 404, 409, 412, 414, 415, 417, 418, 419, 422, 423-24, 425, 426, 427, 430, 431, 433, 434, 436, 437, 442, 444, 447, 461, 470, 483

  Quaker City excursion, 378-81, 386, 397-401, 403-37, 439, 443, 445, 449, 458, 464, 471, 504, 540, 603n40

  Quaker City lectures, 445, 449-50, 469, 472, 479-81, 505, 521. See also “Frozen Truth, The,” “Pilgrim Life,” and “The American Vandal Abroad.”

  Quaker City night-hawks, 406, 446

  Quantrill, William, 84

  Quarles, Benjamin (cousin), 130

  Quarles, Fred (cousin), 130

  Quarles, Jim (cousin), 56

  Quarles, John Adams (uncle), 7, 9, 12, 20, 21, 568n25

  Quarles, Patsy (aunt), 7, 9, 20, 21

  Quarry Farm, 543

  Quereau, G. W., 603n45

  Quincy Herald, 386

  Quincy Market, Boston, 500

  Quincy Whig, 386, 387

  Quincy, Ill., 15, 18, 87, 92, 385-386

  Quirk, Tom, 135

  R

  race and racism, xxvii, 18, 22, 78, 112, 114, 141-42, 238, 248-49, 264, 269-71, 282, 294-95, 307, 309-10, 316, 364, 375, 467, 490, 513-14, 525-26, 537, 571n37, 584n36, 606-07n44

  Radical Republicans, 223, 444, 456, 498

  Ragsdale, Bill, 332

  Ralls County Rangers, 578n5

  Ralls, John, 131, 135

  Ralston, William, 354

  Ramsdell, Hiram J., 450-52

  Ramsey, Charles G., 87

  Raphael, 413

  Ratcliff, James, 56

  Ravenna, Ohio, Democratic Press, 499

  Reade, Charles, 212, 239

  Reagan, John or Jim, 51

  Real del Monte Mine, 259

  Reconstruction, 223, 443

  Red Dog, Calif., 356, 362

  Redpath Lyceum Bureau, 500

  Redpath, James, 227, 348, 500-01, 512, 519-20, 523, 527-29, 531, 534, 559

  Reed, John, 193

  Rees, George, 91

  Rees, Thomas, 91, 92

  Reese River Reveille, 201, 202, 218, 239, 246, 247, 465, 469

  “Refuge of the Derelicts, The,” 370

  Regan, Robert, 410, 468

  Reid, Mayne, 249

  Reid, Whitelaw, 378, 505, 549, 550, 552

  Reigstad, Thomas J., xxiv

  religion, 26-28, 31, 103, 306-07, 314, 320, 328, 468, 478, 483, 487

  Reni, Guido, 468

  Revere House, Boston, 521

  Rhodes, Cecil, 571n37

  Rice, Billy, 268

  Rice, Clement T., 144, 185, 186, 187-88, 191, 194, 197, 201, 202, 208, 209, 231, 312, 335, 389

  Rice, Dan, 38

  Richard III, 64, 65, 355

  Richardson, Abby Sage, 517-18

  Richardson, Albert D., 142, 174, 440, 441, 452-53, 502, 515, 517, 518, 579n9

  Richelieu, Duke of, 342, 355

  Richmond, Joshua, 27

  Ridge, John Rollin (Yellow Bird), 285

  Riley, James Whitcomb, 79

  Riley, John Henry, 450, 451, 551, 552, 558,

  Ripley, George, 374

  Rising, Franklin S., 181, 245, 274, 322, 343, 394

  Ristori, Adelaide, 390

  Roark, Jarrod, xxvi

  Robards, Archibald, 56

  Robards, George, 41

  Robards, John, 29, 30, 40, 57, 131

  Robards, Sally, 44

  robbery on the Divide, 360-62, 369

  Robbins, Myra, 100

  Robinson, Edward, 468

  Robinson, Forrest G., xix-xx, xxi, xxiv

  Robinson, Robert, 189

  Robinson, William S., 522

  Rocha, Guy Louis, 232

  Rochester, N.Y., 15, 77

  Rockford, Ill., Register 493

  Rockport, Mass., 525

  Rocky Ridge, Neb., 140

  Rodgers, Paul C., Jr., 298

  Roe, Emma Comfort, 100

  Rogers, Henry H., xxi, xxiv

  Roman, Anton, 285, 286

  Romanov, Aleksandr Nikoleavich, 422, 423, 424, 425, 426, 435

  Rome, Italy, 380, 414-15, 503

  Romeo and Juliet, 265

  Rondout, N.Y., 490

  Roop County, Nev., 189

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 422

  Roosevelt, Theodore, xvi

  Rose, George, 314

  Rosecrans, William, 444

  Roughing It, xiv, xv, 44, 79, 89, 132, 138, 139, 140, 142, 146, 147, 149, 150, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 168, 173, 175, 176, 180, 181, 182, 188, 193, 196, 201, 206, 222, 228, 238-40, 247, 249, 255, 260-61, 271, 272, 281, 282, 285, 292, 314, 315, 321, 323, 327, 330, 333, 334, 335, 342, 346, 350, 351, 352, 353, 358, 361, 366, 370, 373, 374, 378, 517-19, 600n25

  Roughing It, composition of, 544-45, 555

  “Roughing It” (lecture), 142, 158, 374

  Round Table, 273, 287, 388

  Rouse’s Opera House, Peoria, Ill., 493

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, xiv

  Row, Samuel H., 492

  Royal Hawaiian Reformed Catholic Church, 326, 328

  “Royal Nonesuch,” 278

  Rubens, Peter Paul, 413

  Ruffner, Ann Virginia, 89

  Rufus J. Lackland, 100

  Rulloff, Edward H., 549-50

  Rulofson, William, 463, 549

  Ruskin, John, 446

  Rust, Tom, 157

  Rutland, Vt., Globe, 548

  Ryan, Ann, 574n7

  S

  Sabine, William T., 536

  Sacramento, 461

  Sacramento Bee, 171, 191, 192, 218, 259, 355

  Sacramento Union, 165, 183, 201, 218, 220, 254, 315, 316-17, 322, 323, 324, 327, 328, 331, 333, 335, 337-42, 344, 345, 346, 349, 355, 366, 381, 387, 388, 392, 414, 464, 523, 540, 542, 572n43, 596-97n7

  Sacramento, Calif., 172, 178, 189, 211, 246, 256, 340, 350, 354, 355, 362, 463, 466

  Saint Denis, 467

  Saint Helena, 429

  Saint Mary Magdalene, 428

  Saint Michael, 468

  Saint Paul, 417, 487

  Salt Lake City, Utah, 140, 181

  “Salutatory,” 511

  Samuel, William, 48

  San Diego, Cal., 108, 218

  San Francisco, 371, 373, 393

  San Francisco Alta California, xxv, 157, 166, 183, 201, 260-62, 300, 312, 340, 348, 365, 366, 369-71, 374, 375, 378, 381-83, 385, 386, 388, 391-93, 396, 398, 399, 405, 409-11, 414, 417, 422-24, 426-28, 430, 432, 433, 440, 441, 443, 448, 450, 454-5
8, 461-63, 467, 469, 475, 496, 500, 551, 603n40

  San Francisco American Flag, 237, 290, 354

  San Francisco and San Jose Railroad, 263

  San Francisco Bulletin, 158, 163, 164, 183, 186, 187, 213, 216, 217, 233, 261, 262, 264, 286, 340, 352, 353, 357, 358, 362, 363, 365, 374, 388, 437, 462, 504, 553, 581n42, 584n31

  San Francisco Chronicle, 301

  San Francisco Democratic Press, 268

  San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle, xiii, 103, 191, 274, 301, 304, 307, 309, 310, 312, 314, 316, 344, 350, 353, 357, 363, 387, 469

  San Francisco earthquake of 1865, 296-97

  San Francisco earthquake of 1868, 296

  San Francisco earthquake of 1906, xxv, 296

  San Francisco Elevator, 594n64

  San Francisco Evening Journal, 218, 219-20

  San Francisco Examiner, 177, 300, 305, 311, 313, 352

  San Francisco Minstrels, 268

  San Francisco Morning Call, 16, 157, 194, 195, 198, 199, 202-04, 209, 254, 261-73, 275-77, 292, 301, 308, 310, 322, 339, 340, 351, 353, 363-65, 462, 513, 550

  San Francisco Pacific Appeal, 294

  San Francisco Police Department, 285, 308-14

  San Francisco Public Library, xxv

  San Francisco Sunday Mercury, 285

  San Francisco Times, 292, 363, 365, 596n3

  San Francisco Vigilance Committee, 308

  San Francisco Weekly Mercury, 309, 462, 469

  San Francisco, Calif., xiv, xxv, 148, 149, 151, 152, 172, 178, 184, 188, 189, 193, 194, 196-98, 200, 204, 205, 211-14, 216, 218, 225, 232, 237, 238, 241, 246, 255, 256, 259-316, 326, 328, 335-37, 340, 343-66, 370, 374-76, 380, 381, 386, 389, 392, 406, 432, 455, 458, 461-64, 466-70, 494, 512, 522, 531, 534, 540, 542, 544, 549

  San Jose Evening Patriot, 363

  San Jose Mercury, 364

  San Jose, Calif., 263, 351, 363, 364

  San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, 371

  San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, 371

  San Leandro, Calif., 197

  Sanborn, Margaret, xxiii, 12

  Sandburg, Carl, 48

  Sandwich Islands, 106, 237, 238, 315, 319-42, 344, 347, 348, 351, 353, 355, 360, 365, 366, 380, 381, 446

  Sandwich Islands lecture, 325, 335, 357-59, 362, 364, 365, 384, 385, 388-92, 454, 462, 480, 520, 524

  Sanford, Solomon, 603n45

  Santa Clara, Calif., 263

  Sardinia, island of, 380, 433

  Sartain’s, 63

  Sattelmeyer, Robert, 98

  Saturday Club, Boston, 558

  Saturday Evening Post, 183

  Saturday Evening Review (Elmira), 505

  Saturday Press, xvi, 224, 299, 300, 305, 387

  Saturday Review, 388, 506, 507

  Savage Mine, 180

  Sazerac Saloon, 191, 358

  Schmitz, Neil, 135

  “Schoolhouse Hill,” 19, 29, 38, 41, 56

  Scientific American, 63

  Scipio, Mo., 52

  Sconcia, Olivia, 293, 594n61

  Scoofy, P. M., 304

  Scott, Arthur, 205

  Scott, Walter, 43-44, 86

  Scranton, Penn., 490

  Screamers, 557

  Scribner’s, 336, 505

  Scroll and Key, 478

  Scudder, Henry M., 275

  Sea of Tiberias, 427

  Sebastopol, Crimea, 380, 422, 425, 605n29

  Selkirk, George H., 510, 512, 533

  Sellers, Isaiah, 101, 116-20, 123, 191

  Selma, Mo., 100, 118

  Seneca Falls Convention, 490

  Severance, Emily, 404, 406, 407, 408, 418, 435, 436, 444, 446, 479, 603n45, 607n47

  Severance, Solon, 407, 436, 479

  Seville, Spain, 434

  Sewall, Gilbert T., 148, 182-183, 184

  Seward, William, 82, 136-37, 426, 457

  Sexton, Margaret, 68

  sexuality, 205-06, 214, 375-76

  Shakespeare, William, xvii, xxiv, 92, 102, 173, 241-42, 278, 355, 446, 462, 487

  Sharon, Penn, 501

  Shaw, Henry Wheeler (“Josh Billings”), xx, 92, 495, 523, 504

  Shelden, Michael, xxv, xxvi

  Shelley, Mary, 413

  “Shem’s Diary,” 539

  Shepheard, Philip W., 266-67, 519

  Shepheard’s Hotel, 431

  Sheridan, Philip, 457, 600n25

  Sherman, William Tecumseh, 379, 396, 397

  Shillaber, B. P. (“Mrs. Partington”), 43, 63, 529, 530

  Shoot, Kitty, 68

  Sickles, Daniel, 518

  Sides, Dick, 157

  Sierra Seminary, 185, 248

  Silsbee, Josh, 63

  Silver City, Calif., Owyhee Avalanche, 362

  Silver City, Nev., 148, 172, 227, 246, 360

  Simms, Jack, 57

  “Simon Wheeler, Detective,” 594n61

  Sinatra, Frank, 392

  Singleton, Henry, 115

  Singleton, James W., 386

  Sioux City, 139

  Siskiyou County, Calif., 218

  Six-Mile Cañon, 209, 215

  1601, xxii

  Skandera-Trombley, Laura, xxvi, 489, 570n15

  Sketches New and Old, 205, 552

  Slade, Jack, 140

  slavery, xxxi, 4-5, 9, 14-22, 23-24, 28, 38-39, 46, 49-51, 53-54, 56, 58, 60, 67, 76-77, 82, 84, 108-09, 127, 130, 138, 222, 247, 249, 267-68, 283, 295, 299, 306, 375, 471, 500, 519.

  Slee, John D. F., 513, 530, 541

  Sloan, George, 123

  Sloane, David E. E., 64

  Slocum, Hy, 556

  Slote, Dan, 397, 399, 407-10, 414-16, 426, 427, 432, 446, 552

  Smarr, Sam, 23-24, 33, 44

  Smith, Betsey, 125, 126

  Smith, Grant, 290

  Smith, Henry Nash, 50, 323

  Smith, Joseph, 61, 141

  Smith, Perry, 131

  Smith, R. A., 80

  Smith, Roger, 232

  Smithsonian Institution, 81

  Smollett, Tobias, 103

  Smyrna, Greece, 426

  Smyrniote, 343-45

  Sny Island, Ill., 24

  Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 395

  Society of California Pioneers, 155, 211

  Soda Springs, Calif., 225

  “Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion,” 370

  Sonora Silver Mining Company, 180

  Sonora, Calif., 237

  Sons of Temperance, 47, 207

  Soulè, Frank, 174, 263, 365

  South St. Louis Mission, 384

  Spanish Mine, 199

  Spanish-American War, xx

  Sparta, Wis., 486

  Spectator (London), 557

  Spencer, Charles N. 334, 343

  Sphinx, 431, 432, 480

  Spirit of the Times, 63

  “Spiritual Insanity,” 307

  Spring Valley Water Company, 216, 217, 218, 307

  Springfield, Ill., 77

  Springfield, Mass., 284

  Springfield, Mass., Republican, 141, 285, 345, 388, 398, 417, 496, 504, 522, 524

  St. George’s Episcopal Church, 395

  St. Joseph, Mo., 140, 141, 143

  St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association Fair, 91

  St. Louis and New Orleans Pilots Association, 101

  St. Louis Apprentices Association, 39

  St. Louis Evening News, 76, 87, 88

  St. Louis Missouri Democrat, 102, 136, 384, 385, 442, 546

  St. Louis Missouri Republican, 18, 76, 114, 119, 122, 123, 124, 286, 384, 388, 398, 426, 433, 494, 579n9

  St. Louis Missouri State Journal, 130

  St. Louis Museum and Theatre, 383

  St. Louis Reveille, 35, 36-37, 48, 58

  St. Louis Sanitary Fund, 244, 246-49

  St. Louis Theater, 126

  St. Louis Times, 320, 397

  St. Louis Typographical Union, 76

  St. Louis Varieties, 86

  St. Louis, Mo., 9, 12, 14, 17, 29, 35, 39, 51, 55-57, 59, 68, 71, 72, 75-77, 84-86, 88, 91-95, 98,
100, 101, 104, 105, 107, 109-11, 113-16, 119-29, 135, 138, 139, 176, 183, 197, 224, 229, 247, 248, 292, 305, 306, 353, 374, 383, 386, 390, 407, 442, 475-76, 500, 509, 514, 529, 540, 545, 547

  St. Mark’s Basilica, Venice, 414

  St. Nicholas Hotel, New York, 448

  St. Peter’s Basilica, 415

  Stage, 390

  Staley, Thomas N., 328, 329, 333, 334, 349

  Stalin, Josef, 422

  Stamford, Conn., 346

  Stampede Valley, Calif., 209

  Stanford University, 151

  Stanford, Leland, 151, 189, 215

  Stanley, Henry M., 385, 390

  Stanton, Edwin M., 444

  Stanton, John (“Corey O’Lanus”), 392

  Steamboat Springs, Nev., 204, 207, 256

  Stearns, L. O., 166, 167

  Stebbins, Horatio, 275, 296, 365, 483, 485, 486

  Steinbrink, Jeffrey, xv, xxiv, 519

  Steinway Hall, New York, 448

  Stern, Laurence, 103

  Stevens, Ed, 131

  Stevens, Thaddeus, 78

  Stewart, A. T., 395

  Stewart, William M., 179, 208, 215, 220, 221-23, 232, 290, 390, 396, 440, 442, 444, 450, 457, 542

  Stillé, Charles J., 246

  Stockton Independent, 183, 235

  Stockton, Calif., 177, 281

  Stoddard, Charles Warren, 28, 212, 273, 285, 286, 327, 348, 383, 411, 486

  Stoker, Dick, 278, 280, 281

  Stone, A. L., 275, 340, 365

  Stone, Albert E., Jr., 229

  Stone, Barton W., 29, 30, 568n43

  Storey County, Nev., Bible Society, 181

  Storey County, Nev., Sanitary Commission, 245, 248

  “Story of a Bad Little Boy, The,” 387

  Stotts, Belle, 89, 105, 123

  Stout, Ira, 14-15

  Stowe, Calvin, 453

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 449, 453, 467, 477, 489, 514, 558

  Strawn’s Hall, Jacksonville, Ill., 494

  Strong, Charles, 198, 232

  Stuyvesant, N.Y., 499

  subscription publication, 440-42, 452-53

  suffrage, 295, 307, 325, 384, 446, 490, 517

  suicide, on, 289, 313, 596n96

  Sullivan, Tim, xvi

  Sunshine, 124

  Surratt, John H., 549

  Susanville, Calif., 189

  Sut Lovingood’s Yarns, 382

  Sutter, John, 457

  Sutterley, James, 302-03

  Swain, Mark, 345

  Swain, Robert B., 265, 273, 365, 484

  profanity, 406-07, 483, 494

  Swift, Jonathan, 103

  Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 236

  Swinton, William, 450-51

  “Swiss Girl’s Home, The” (poem), 83-84

  Sydney, Australia, 183

  Syracuse Standard, 505

  Syracuse, N.Y., 67, 68, 77, 527

  T

  Talmage, De Witt, xvi, 537

  Tammany Hall, 137, 391

  Tangier, Morocco, 409

  Tayleur, Clifton F., 199

  Taylor, Annie, 90, 94

  Taylor, Bayard, 393, 419, 428, 430

 

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