Ho! For California.--Oh, California.--O! California.--Arrival of the San Francisco.--California over the left.--You who don't believe it.--Coming around the horn.--A ripping trip.--The fools of '49.--Humbug steamship companies.--Loss of the "Central America".--Crossing the plains.--Sweet Betsey from Pike.--Arrival of the greenhorn.--That is even so.--Emigrant from Pike.--Seeing the elephant.--Joe Bowers.--Poker Jim.--Hunting after gold.--We are all a panning.--An oft-told tale.--Away upon the Yuba.--When I went off to prospect.--Striking a lead.--Prospecting dream.--Poor diggings.--A miners' meeting.--He ought to know!.--Australia and the Amazon.--An honest miner.--The sensible miner.--The happy miner.--That's the way to talk it.--The national miner.--The Pike County miner.--A life by the cabin fire.--My log cabin home.--War in camp.--The mountain cottage.--The shady old camp.--Life in California.--The gambler.--John Chinaman's appeal.--City council.--Rushing panic in San Francisco.--John Chinaman, my Jo.--Couldn't stand the press.--John Chinaman.--The rowdy.--California bloomer.--Hangtown gals.--California ball.--Sacramento gals.--He's the man for me.--California humbugs.--The steam navigation thieves.--California Stage Company.--California Legislature.--Honest John and William Relief.--California bank robbers.--Joaquin the horse-thief.--The Sonora filibusters.--Gold lake and gold bluff.--The unhappy miner.--The lousy miner.--The vocal miner.--The miner's lament, I.--The miner's lament, II.--The miner's lament, III.--I'm sad and lonely here.--I often think of writing home.--The miner's dream.--And thus he spoke.--Do they miss me at home? : a parody.--The last good-bye.--Then hurrah for home!.--The miner's farewell.--The ragged coat.--On board the steamer.--California as it is and was.--Old forty-nine.--The days of '49.--The good old days of '50, '1, and '2.--Ye ancient Yuba miner, of the days of '49.--Song of the Argonauts.--The land we adore.--Oh my darling Clementine.