North America

Strangers coming to New York should always be on the watch for pickpockets, and even natives are not careful enough in this respect. Picking pockets has been reduced to a science here, and is followed by many persons as a profession. It requires long practice and great skill, but these, when once acquired, make their possessor a dangerous member of the community. Women, by their lightness of touch and great facility in manipulating their victims, make the most dangerous operators in the city.

by Henry Inman

by John Wesley Powell

1895

IN THE HIGH SIERRAS OF CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA

by George Wharton James

1915

by Isabella L. Bird

by Arnold Bennett

1912

The Story of the Exploring Expedition Conducted by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.

by Dillon Wallace

by Cabeza de Vaca

by Francis Parkman

by Anthony Trollope