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I......Seven
Times Seven Are Seven - (Birth in New Harrison,Ohio - neighbors - Mexican-American War - home schooling; - the sow in
the schoolhouse)
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| II.....Woods
and Streams - (local wildlife -encounters with
a panther - fishing - shinny matches in winter) |
| III.....Farm
Work - (farm work and crops - father's stance
on liquor - father's skills as cobbler and mother's as seamstress)
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| IV......Making
Barrels - (barrel making- winning a shooting match)
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| V......The
Whisky Bottle - (train trip to Dayton - caught
in a drunken riot - log rolling - barn raising) |
| VI.....Slave
or Free? - (reading Uncle Tom's Cabin - issues
of slavery in Kansas - presidential election campaigns) |
| VII....The
One-Way Ticket - (decision to emigrate to Kansas
- the train from Greenville west to Jefferson City) |
| VIII...Heading
Up the Missouri - (traveling the Missouri river
on the New Lucy - activities on board - first encounter with slaves -- arrival
in Kansas City and lodging at the Gillis House) |
| IX.....Out
Where the West Begins - (walking west into Kansas
- a promise of work falls through - left alone) |
| X.....A
Friend in Need - (meeting Robert Simerwell -
arrival at Six Mile Creek -- working for Simerwell on the farm - Simerwell's
missionary work and family) |
| XI....."Keep
the Mill A-Going" - (Auburn's first steam
mill - James Lane visits Auburn - joining the Independent Order of Good
Templars - parents move from Ohio to Kansas - drought of 1860 and closing
of the mill) |
| XII....Western
Kansas Diggings - (prospecting in Colorado - following
the Platte river to Denver - arrival and impressions of the new town) |
| XIII...There's
Gold in Those Hills - (cutting logs for houses
- meeting Jim Beckworth - prospecting in Central City - looking for gold
in the San Juan mountains - a wild goose chase - meeting Kit Carson
and avoiding Indian war parties - retrieving cattle from thieves - return
to Central City and Denver - outbreak of the Civil War -- return to Kansas) |
| XIV....The
Long, Long Trail - (Kansas enters the union -
carrying guns and ammunition from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Union on the
Santa Fe Trail - routines of trail life - Council Grove and other waypoints
along the trail - taking the Cimarron cutoff - returning via Raton Pass
and Bent's Fort) |
| XV....With
the Cavalry in Arkansas - (enlistment in the 2nd
Kansas Cavalry - father's death - with the army in Arkansas - Fort Smith
- fighting at Cane Hill - battle of Prairie Grove - Wild Bill Hickock -
wounding at Dardanelle and convalescence at Fort Smith - working in the
commissary department and defending a local family from depradations - travel
back to Auburn and meeting Jennie Dickson) |
| XVI..."Git
Along, Little Dogies, Git Along!" - (end
of the war -- driving cattle from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Union on the
Santa Fe Trail - reunion with Colonel Cloud at Fort Larned - Cimarron cutoff
-- encounter with Indians - return via the Aubry cutoff) |
| XVII...On
the Trail of the Indian - (Enlistment in the 18th
Kansas Cavalry and Indian fighting - Fort Harker - engaging Indians in the
Spillman Creek fight - escape under cover of darkness - 1867 treaty and
cessation of hostilities) |
| XVIII...Stone
Fences - (courting - building stone fences - marriage
- dealing with local Indians - leadership in the Masons - election to public
office) |
| XIX...Prohibition
Picnics - (working for temperance - Kansas institutes
prohibition - beginnings of the annual temperance picnic - chasing bootleggers
- made chief of police in Topeka) |
| XX...."Old
Alfalfa's" Raids - (raids on liquor establishments
- surprise raids - run-in with Carrie Nation) |
| XXI...Gambling
Must Go - (Raids on gambling establishments -
disguises and subterfuge) |
| XXII. .Mission
Accomplished - (made superintendent of the Kansas
Temperance Union - public speaking tours - return visit to New Harrison
- reflections on a life) |
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