Contents -- Laces, an Introduction -- I. In the Bottoms -- George -- Grand Pass -- Sale -- Underlined Passages in My Father's Walden -- The Bottoms -- Clearing -- To Clear -- Winter Onions -- Springs -- II. Hanging Mart Rider -- Dark Cloud -- Coon Hollow -- Frank James -- Dr. John Benson -- A Man -- Judge Lynch -- Mart Rider -- "Why, Mrs. Hamilton!" -- The Hatchet -- III. The Missouri Princess and Petit Missouri -- One Boy -- Possum -- People of the Canoe -- Bourgmont -- Massacre -- Our Discipline -- Jim Duncan Wading -- The Miamis -- The Old Fort -- IV. Mother, Father, Farm -- The Miami Mastodon -- Ice -- Chicago Women -- The Bridge -- Mother and Her Boats -- Chartreuse Sails -- River Horse -- Father -- Farm -- Deep River, a Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographical Appendix.