This collection of 14 stories includes: The Right Eye of the Commander; M'liss: an Idyl of Red Mountain; The Luck of Roaring Camp; The Outcasts of Poker Flat; Tennessee's Partner; The Idyl of Red Gulch; Brown of Calaveras; Miggles; How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar; Mrs. Skaggs' Husbands; Wan Lee, the Pagan; A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst; An Ingénue of the Sierras; and A Protégée of Jack Hamlin's. Plus an introduction by Wallace Stegner (then of Stanford University)