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