Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Autobiography -- Chronology -- BOOK 1 Nineteenth-Century Life -- Go West, Young Man -- Mover s Blood -- Waiting for Her Carriage -- School Days in the Eighties -- Midwest -- More of the Midwest -- Our Droll Generation -- Adolescent Mixture -- Girlhood -- Grown Up at Last -- Broken Circle -- Young Lady -- Blessed Be the Dabblers -- On to Matrimony -- Role of Wife -- Bleacher Seat -- BOOK 2 Twentieth-Century Life -- The Fertile Years -- Small-Town Writer -- Woman's Suffrage 1914 Style -- The Middle of the Bridge -- World War I -- Point and Counterpoint -- Edging into Politics -- Standing the Gaff -- The Outs Were the Ins -- Wooing the Minority -- My Fairy Godmother -- Campaigning for Congress -- Tug of War -- The Dog's Tail -- Women s Way of Winning -- Tickets, Please! -- Emotional Spectacle -- Magnifcent but Not Winning -- Printer's Ink -- Stomping Ground -- Republican Game and Democratic -- Religious Revival -- All Things to All Men -- Democratic Stock -- Political Swan Song -- So Far -- Bibliography -- Index.