Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Jane Lancaster
Preface
I. It Can't Be Done-But Then, It Is Perfectly Simple
II. Albany, First Stop
III. A Breakdown
IV. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana
V. Luggage and Other Luxuries
VI. Did Anybody Say "Chicken"?
VII. The City of Ambition
VIII. A Few Chicagoans
IX. Tins
X. Mud!!
XI. In Rochelle
XII. The Weight of Public Opinion
XIII. Muddier!
XIV. One of the Fogged Impressions
XV. A Few Ways of the West
XVI. Halfway House
XVII. Next Stop, North Platte!
XVIII. The City of Recklessness
XIX. A Glimpse of the West That Was
XX. Our Little Sister of Yesterday
XXI. Ignorance with a Capital I
XXII. Some Indians and Mr. X.
XXIII. With Nowhere to Go but Out
XXIV. Into the Desert
XXV. Through the City Unpronounceable to an Exposition Beautiful
XXVI. The Land of Gladness
XXVII. The Mettle of a Hero
XXVIII. San Francisco
XXIX. The Fair
XXX. "Unending Sameness" Was What They Said
XXXI. To Those Who Think of Following in Our Tire Tracks
XXXII. On the Subject of Clothes
XXXIII. How Far Can You Go in Comfort?
Appendix: Emily Post's Journey, April 25-June 8, 1915
Index by Jane Lancaster