Stories. The legend of Monte del Diablo -- The luck of Roaring Camp -- The outcasts of Poker Flat -- Miggles -- Tennessee's Partner -- The idyl of Red Gulch -- Brown of Calaveras -- Mr. Thompson's prodigal -- The iliad of Sandy Bar -- The poet of Sierra Flat -- How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar -- Wan Lee, the pagan -- An ingénue of the Sierras -- Three vagabonds of Trinidad -- A pupil of Chestnut Ridge -- Condensed novels. Muck-a-muck -- The haunted man -- The stolen cigar case -- Poetry. To the Pliocene skull -- The society upon the Stanislaus -- Plain language from Truthful James -- Dickens in camp -- That Ebrew Jew -- Free silver at Angel's -- Essays. The Argonauts of '49 -- The rise of the "short story" -- How I went to the mines -- Bohemian days in San Francisco -- Explanatory notes.