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Bidwell’s Travels

by Austin Bidwell

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Contents
  3. 3Chapter I — Had There Been Wisdom There?
  4. 4Chapter II — “’Twas Ever Thus.” of Course It Was
  5. 5Chapter III — A Licensed Pirate
  6. 6Chapter IV — Fools Stumbling on Fortunes
  7. 7Chapter V — When Boss Tweed Was New York’s Owner and Jim Fisk, Prop…
  8. 8Chapter VI — Cheated Visions and Vanished Hopes
  9. 9Chapter VII — Gilded Sirs Who Are Not Wise
  10. 10Chapter VIII — The Merry Summer Over and No Harvest Stored
  11. 11Chapter IX — “We Have Another Job for You”
  12. 12Chapter X — A Nineteenth Century Prodigal
  13. 13Chapter XI — “Crack the Lawyer’s Voice That He May Never More False…
  14. 14Chapter XII — Restez Ici, Mes Enfants
  15. 15Chapter XIII — We Talk of the Stars and Do the Other Thing
  16. 16Chapter XIV — I Play the Silver King
  17. 17Chapter XV — Piratical Cruise in Tropical Seas
  18. 18Chapter XVI — “Show Me Your Letters of Credit”
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Once More We Sail the Seas Over
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Little Fishes Wriggling Through Green Waves
  21. 21Chapter XIX — With No Regrets, With No Torturing Remorse
  22. 22Chapter XX — Details Necessary, If Tedious
  23. 23Chapter XXI — The Egyptians Pass Over the Red Sea and the Hebrews A…
  24. 24Chapter XXII — “Accepted. Lionel Rothschild”
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — Showers of Gold Fall — And Then?
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — Points for Justice to Pick Up
  27. 27Chapter XXV — The Irony of Fate
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — “Excuse Me, Sir, for Questioning You”
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — The Flowers in the Primrose Way Are Sweet
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Fear Says “No” to Happiness
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — I Watch the Pyrenees Sink in the Sea, Then Sail O’Er…
  32. 32Chapter XXX — “Happiness and I Shake Hands for a Time”
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — The Philistines Are Upon Thee, Samson
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — Nightly in My Dungeon the Magician Memory Would Unr…
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — Sharks, Salt Water Ones, and Other Things
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — One Lovely June Morning Into Plymouth Harbor We Sail
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — Running the Gauntlet
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — “Nothing Left Us but a Grave, That Small Model of t…
  39. 39Chapter XXXVII — Henceforth a Light Was to Stream Through the Flute…
  40. 40Chapter XXXVIII — What, These Tedious Details Again
  41. 41Chapter XXXIX — The Days o’ Summer Merrily Spent in the Land of the…
  42. 42Chapter XL — We Will Ferry You Over Jordan That Rolls Between
  43. 43Chapter XLI — “Well My Man, What Do You Intend to Do?” “I Want to G…
  44. 44Chapter XLII — Many a Man More Dangerous Writes Alderman After His…
  45. 45Chapter XLIII — A Battered Hulk Stranded on a Shore to Which No Tid…
  46. 46Chapter XLIV — I Find the Fenians With Me in the Toils
  47. 47Chapter XLV — In Mood as Lonely, in Plight as Desperate as His
  48. 48Chapter XLVI — If Pain Is Not an Evil, It Certainly Is a Very Good…
  49. 49Chapter XLVII — His Row Becomes Filled With Very Sharp-Edged Stones…
  50. 50Chapter XLVIII — He Telegraphed the News to My Warder, and Barton W…
  51. 51Chapter XLIX — I Fluster the Great Jupiter of My Little World
  52. 52Chapter L — It Was Night; Silence and Gloom Had Settled Down on the…

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