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Ⅰ．LIFE IN THE EAST 1

1．A SOUTHERN VIEW OF BOSTON AND ITS SCHOOLS，1793 3

2．LIFE AND MANGERS IN NEW ENGLAND，1812 12

Yale College Described by Its President 13

Everyday Living 18

3．A SCIENTIST AMONG THE SHAKERS，1819 23

4．A RESOLUTE WOMAN OBSERVES THE ATLANTIC CITIES，1824-29 30

The Federal Capital 31

Philadelphia-Its Markets and Charities 35

Eastern Pennsylvania：A Rail Road and the Germans 45

New York：Jails and Fires 51

The Athens of America 57

5．THE PLEASURES OF NEW YORK，1828 65

Dining and Dancing 65

A Southern Lady Delights in the City 69

6．THE GREAT WATER HIGHWAY THROUGU NEW YORK STATE，1829 71

7．IN AMERICA ALL WOMEN ARE LADIES，1835 81

8．THE METROPOLIS，1837 89

The Sidewalks of New York 90

Hotels 92

Dandies 94

Water and Other Liquids 95

9．A GEORGIA PLANTER AMONG THE YANKEES，1845 99

Democracy and the Arts in the Capital City 100

Food and Drink in Baltimore 102

A Southern View of the Northern Free Negro 109

The Mills and the Girls of Lowell 110

10．A CHARLESTONIAN IN BABYLON，1852 115

Ⅱ．THE COTTON KINGDOM 127

11．A BOSTON BRAHMIN DINES WITH THE VIRGINIA DEMOCRACY，1815 129

12．A NEW ENGLAND POET IN VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY，1818 136

Life and Manners in the Old Dominion 137

Old Kentucky Home 144

13．SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS ON SOUTHERN LIFE，1818-29 149

An Alabama Revival 149

The Ladies of Raleigh Take Snuff 152

Savannah 153

14．A YANKEE FALLS IN LOVE WITH THE SOUTH，1835 155

Ships on the Levee at New Orleans 156

The Streets of New Orleans by Night 158

New Orleans Coffee Houses and Gambling Hells 161

Sunday in New Orleans 168

A Louisiana Sugar Plantation 173

A Mississippi Steamboat：New Orleans to Natchez 180

The Planters of Mississippi 183

The Mississippi Slave Trade 191

A Class System among the Negroes 200

The Mississippi Poor White 204

15．SENSIBLE REFLECTIONS ON SOUTHERN SOCIETY，1852-58 206

A James River Farm 207

A South Carolina Rice Plantation 209

Mountain Whites 221

A Mississippi Cotton Plantation 224

16．THE PLEASURES OF SOUTHERN SOCIETY，1856 232

A Fashionable Virginia Pleasure Resort 232

Charleston before the War 239

17．GENERAL SHERMAN DESTROYS A CIVILIZATION，1864 245

The Red Badge of Courage 245

The Siege of Atlanta 253

Atlanta to the Sea 258

18．GONE WITH THE WIND：YANKEES AND REBELS，1865 268

Ⅲ．THE VALLEY OF DEMOCRACY 275

19．RELIGIOUS ECSTACY ON THE FRONTIER，1804-5 277

20．AN EARLY VIEW OF THE MISSOURI COUNTRY，1810-11 281

A Missouri Frontier Family 282

The Old French after the Purchase of Louisiana 284

The Indians of the Upper Missouri 289

21．CONNECTICUT＇S CANAAN IN THE WESTERN RESERVE，1821 295

22．A ROVING REPORTER ON THE FRONTIER：THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI，1837 304

23．＂WE AIR AN ALMIGHTY PEOPLE＂：THE OLD NORTHWEST，1848 314

A Stage Coach Journey across Ohio 315

Frontier Missouri 319

Chicago 322

24．THE AMERICAN SPIRIT IN THE WEST，1856 328

Ⅳ．WESTWARD THE COURSE OF EMPIRE 337

25．OUTFITTING A SANTA FE EXPEDITION，1844 339

26．CALIFORNIA ON THE EVE OF CONQUEST，1847 347

27．CALIFORNIA EXCHANGES LATIN CIVILIZATION FOR AMERICAN，1846-49 356

Sutter＇s Fort 357

The Discovery of Gold 359

28．ELDORADO：CALIFORNIA AND THE FORTY-NINERS，1849 369

First Impressions of San Francisco 370

Sacramento City 374

San Francisco Revisited 380

29．AN EDITOR VISITS THE MORMONS，1859 389

30．NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST，1866 407

The Mining Town of Boise 407

Portland，Oregon 409

The California Chinese 412

Latins and Germans in Southern California 420

Army Posts and Arizona Sand 423

A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 434