Contents
I. They Bade Me Good-bye
II. Falstaff's Ragged Regiment
III. Down to the Hard-Pan of Life
IV. A New Hand Applies the Bellows of the Crittenden Organ
V. A Great Man in Israel
VI. The Editor's Table
VII. A Real Fat Job
VIII. Emerging Whig Partisan
IX. A Dark and Disastrous Season
X. Days of the Humbuggers
XI. Bank Politics, Violence, and a Legal-Printing Mission
XII. A Cleaver Made Expressly to Seek Satisfation of Pike and REed
XIII. There Walks, Majestic, the Immaculate Pike
XIV. The Greatest Law Reasoner in the State
XV. Blows to Take as Well as Blows to Give
XVI. Saving the Real Estate Bank Assignees
XVII. To Mexico and Back
XVIII. Slavery, Sectionalism, and the Pacific Railroad
XIX. Nobly Did He Vindicate the Union
XX. Renewal of the Bank War
XXI. Let the South Build Her Own Railroad to the Pacific
XXII. Indian Claims and Personal Affairs, 1852-1855
XXIII. Indian Claims: Successes and Failures
XXIV. Know-Nothing Leader
XXV. Political Disruption and Sucession
XXVI. Commissioner Pike Makes a Decision at North Fork Village
XXVII. Winning the Confederacy's Indian Allies
XXVIII. To Richmond and Back
XXIX. Mars in the Ozarks: Pea Ridge
XXX. An Interlude of Attrocity
XXXI. Pen-and-Ink Campaigning in the Territory
XXXII. The Scottish Rite Ritualist of Greasy Cove
XXXIII. From the Bench of Arkansas to the Memphis Bar, 1864-1865
XXXIV. Postwar Life in Memphis, 1866-1868
XXXV. Rebel Lawyers in Washington, 1868-1878
XXXVI. Last Years
Notes
Bibliography
Index