Across the Plains

"Across the Plains" (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with "The Amateur Emigrant" and ended with "The Silverado Squatters." The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7 subsections. It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europeans, and his train journey from New York to San Francisco in an immigrant train...