by WILLIAM BRONSON
Introduction by OSCAR LEWIS

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION

Chapter One: Sweet Western Wind

Chapter Two: The Beginnings

Chapter Three: The First Trial

Chapter Four: To the Open Sea

Chapter Five: Early to Bed and Early to Rise

Fire and Standing Grain


Ill Winds Across the Plains


The Great Klondike Commotion

Chapter Six: The Second Trial

Chapter Seven: Make No Mistake, Stranger

Schooners of the Western Coast


Sockeye, Red, and Chinook

Chapter Eight: Twilight of an Age Now Gone

Chapter Nine: A Gray and Troubled Time

The Bridges of San Francisco Bay

Chapter Ten: Years of Change

From the Ocean Floor


Laurel Hill


Big Gamble on the Stars