SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF A BUSY LIFE

By Thomas S. Hawkins

Privately published by the author in San Francisco, August 1913

 

 

Chapter 1    Conditions in the "Far West" Seventy Years Ago [measured from 1913]

Chapter 2    Some Remembered Incidents of Early Childhood   

Chapter 3    Schoolhouse of Boyhood Days

Chapter 4    Journey to the Blue-Grass Country

Chapter 5    Remembrances of School-Days and the Old Kentucky Homes

Chapter 6    An Eventful Return Trip to the Missouri Farm

Chapter 7    School Teaching and Good Times on the Meramec River

Chapter 8    Decision to Adopt Literature As a Profession

Chapter 9    Study of Medicine While Engaged in Teaching

Chapter 10  A Business Venture and Start for the West

Chapter 11  Firs Acquaintance with Indians on the Plains

Chapter 12  Over the Rocky Mountains to the Great Salt Lake

Chapter 13  Difficulties with Indians and Trails of the Desert

Chapter 14  Over the Sierra Nevada Mountains Into California

Chapter 15  Farming in California in the Early Sixties

Chapter 16  San Justo Homestead Association and the Town of Hollister

Chapter 17  Business Interests and Organization of California Bankers' Association

Chapter 18  Inception and Completion of Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital

 

Illustrations

 

 

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