On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck

About this eBook

Author

Woodward, R. Pitcher (Robert Pitcher)

Title

On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours, Starting Without a Dollar and Earning My Way

Credits

Produced by RichardW, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains

Subject

Overland journeys to the Pacific

Category

Text

eBook-No.

42214

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42214

Release Date

February 26, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck, by R. Pitcher Woodward
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
4. 4.PROLOGUE.
5. 5.PART 1. — CHAPTER I. Madison Square to Yonkers — CHAPTER II. Donkey's many ailments — CHAPTER III. Polishing shoes at Vassar — CHAPTER IV. An even trade no robbery — CHAPTER V. The donkey on skates — CHAPTER VI. Mac held for ransom — CHAPTER VII. I mop the hotel floor — CHAPTER VIII. Footpads fire upon us — CHAPTER IX. In a haymow below zero — CHAPTER X. An asinine snowball — CHAPTER XI. One bore is enough — CHAPTER XII. At a country dance — CHAPTER XIII. A peculiar, cold day — CHAPTER XIV. I bargain for eggs — CHAPTER XV. Gypsy girl tells fortune — CHAPTER XVI. All the devils are here — CHAPTER XVII. Darkest hour before dawn — CHAPTER XVIII. Champagne avenue, Chicago
6. 6.PART TWO. — CHAPTER XIX. Donk causes a sensation — CHAPTER XX. A donkey for Alderman — CHAPTER XXI. A donkey without a father — CHAPTER XXII. Rat trap and donkey's tail — CHAPTER XXIII. Mac crosses the Mississippi — CHAPTER XXIV. Pod hires a valet — CHAPTER XXV. Done by a horsetrader — CHAPTER XXVI. Pod under arrest — CHAPTER XXVII. Adventure in a sleeping bag — CHAPTER XXVIII. Mayor rides Mac A'Rony — CHAPTER XXIX. Across the Missouri in wheelbarrow — CHAPTER XXX. Pod in insane asylum — CHAPTER XXXI. Narrow escape in quicksand — CHAPTER XXXII. At Buffalo Bill's ranch — CHAPTER XXXIII. Fourth of July in the desert — CHAPTER XXXIV. Bitten by a rattler — CHAPTER XXXV. Havoc in a cyclone — CHAPTER XXXVI. Two pretty dairy maids — CHAPTER XXXVII. Donks climb Pike's Peak — CHAPTER XXXVIII. Sights in Cripple Creek — CHAPTER XXXIX. Baby girl named for Pod — CHAPTER XL. Treed by a silvertip bear — CHAPTER XLI. Nearly drowned in the Rockies — CHAPTER XLII. Donkey shoots the chutes — CHAPTER XLIII. Paint sign with donk's tail — CHAPTER XLIV. Swim two rivers in Utah — CHAPTER XLV. Initiated to Mormon faith — CHAPTER XLVI. Typewriting on a donkey — CHAPTER XLVII. Pod kissed by sweet sixteen — CHAPTER XLVIII. Last drop in the canteen — CHAPTER XLIX. How donkey pulls a tooth — CHAPTER L. Encounter with two desperadoes — CHAPTER LI. Donk, boy and dried apples — CHAPTER LII. Lost in Nevada desert — CHAPTER LIII. A frightful ghost dance — CHAPTER LIV. Across Sierras in deep snow — CHAPTER LV. All down a toboggan slide — CHAPTER LVI. 'Frisco at last, we win! — EPILOGUE

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