Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Gold Mining in California, Currier & Ives, c. 1871
Chapter 1: An Oregon Cabin
Chapter 2: Abandoned
Chapter 3: To Portland and Beyond
Chapter 4: On the Farm
Chapter 5: San Francisco
Chapter 6: Wet Spring in Oregon
Chapter 7: To the Gold Fields
Chapter 8: Wanderlust
Chapter 9: Uncertainty and Change
Chapter 10: Gold Fever
Chapter 11: Partners
Chapter 12: Fourth of July
Chapter 13: Another Partner
Chapter 14: Letter From Home
Chapter 15: Sluicing and Selling
Chapter 16: Gunfight
Chapter 17: Another Letter
Chapter 18: Starting School
Chapter 19: The New Lode
Chapter 20: Back to the Fort
Chapter 21: School Days
Chapter 22: Mining Code
Chapter 23: Winter in Oregon
Chapter 24: Winter in California
Chapter 25: One Year Alone
Chapter 26: Civilization
Chapter 27: Sorrow
Chapter 28: Trouble on the Claim
Chapter 29: Murderer’s Bar
Chapter 30: Letter from Mac
Chapter 31: Good-Byes
Chapter 32: Letters from Boston
Chapter 33: The Beast and the Beauty
Chapter 34: A Man Around
Chapter 35: The President’s Emissary
Chapter 36: Summer’s Heat
Chapter 37: Letting Go
Chapter 38: Old Friends and New Endeavors
Chapter 39: Hired Hand
Chapter 40: At the Convention
Chapter 41: Continuing the Debates
Chapter 42: Harvest
Chapter 43: Debating Next Steps
Chapter 44: Smallpox
Chapter 45: Return to Sacramento
Chapter 46: Recovery and Loss
Chapter 47: Storekeeping
Chapter 48: Christmas Secrets
Chapter 49: Winter in Town
Chapter 50: Wedding
Chapter 51: Commerce and Culture
Chapter 52: Memories and Mending
Chapter 53: Mac’s Responses
Chapter 54: Another Spring Planting
Chapter 55: Consuela’s Story
Chapter 56: Deserter
Chapter 57: New Business and New Birth
Chapter 58: Transports and Fire
Chapter 59: Moving On
Chapter 60: Ambush
Chapter 61: Jenny Explains
Chapter 62: Consequences
Chapter 63: Recovery
Chapter 64: Melancholy
Chapter 65: New Wounds
Chapter 66: More Death and a Declaration
Chapter 67: Proposal
Chapter 68: Jenny’s Quandary
Chapter 69: Drifting
Chapter 70: Courting and Independence
Chapter 71: More Courting
Chapter 72: A Letter From Oregon
Chapter 73: Talking to Susan
Chapter 74: Confession
Chapter 75: A Letter and a Bill of Sale
Chapter 76: A Ship Is Lost
Chapter 77: Threats
Chapter 78: Is It Love?
Chapter 79: Storm at Sea
Chapter 80: Harvest Dance
Chapter 81: Delays in Astoria
Chapter 82: Alone
Chapter 83: Return to the Homestead
Chapter 84: Reunion
Chapter 85: Telling Their Stories
Chapter 86: Union
Author’s Note and Research Methods
Discussion Guide
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Praise for Lead Me Home
Copyright