From New York to San Francisco: Travel Sketches from the Year 1869Welcome to an America you've never seen. Where anyone can drop by the White House and visit the President between 10 a. m. and noon; where cowcatchers are bloodied daily on train tracks between New York and Boston; where spent bullets are strewn across Civil War battlefields, and Indians still roam Yosemite Valley; where pigs rut in the sand and clay streets of Washington, DC., and the weather bleached skeletons of oxen and horses line the old mail