Excerpt from The Atlantic to the Pacific: What to See, and How to See It
In search of health, in the early spring of 1872, I turned my face from the Atlantic to the Pacific; and in the following pages I propose to tell of my journey. The task which I have allotted to myself is to so inform my readers, that, should they journey to California, they would know "what to see, and how to see it." Many circumstances conspired to give me peculiar advantages for learning of the people who dwell there, as well as for viewing the country, and beholding the magnificent scenery. These advantages I trust I have turned to account in forming correct judgments.
Parts of this book have appeared in The Providence Evening Press, in a series of letters under the caption of "Across the Continent:"
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