... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ree and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither t... ...ers, and in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six fat volumes. It was as much as I could carry with c... ...d in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six fat volumes. It was as much as I could carry with convenie... ... form a chorus of sweet and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolinas; there are f... ...e. I know not which is the more convenient, nor even which is the more truly courteous. The English stiffness unfortunately tends to be continued afte... ...aintly audible along its ample sweep. A little upon one side, and you find a district of sand and birch and boulder; a little upon the other lies the ... ...ed in my ears; and our way had lain through- out over a moorish country very northern to behold. Latish at night, though it was still broad day in our...

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...Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?..........