Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Póh-hlaik, the Cave Boy -- McCoy's Stampede -- Sister Anne and the Cowboy -- Where the Buffaloes Begin -- Her Neighbor's Claim -- Kit -- The Black Hero of the Ranges -- Smiley Hewitt and the Prairie-Wolf -- When Jennie Saved the Windmill -- A Little Maverick -- Our First Well in Nebraska -- The McCulloughs of the Bluff -- How the Parsonage Was Papered -- The Doctor's Visit -- In Common -- A Matter of Nationality -- The Little Nugget Strike -- The Buffalo Hunt -- "Old Glory" in the Desert -- A Native Teacher -- Fairy "Spuds" -- The Common Sense of John Thomas -- The Successes of Jimmy Sylvester -- The Girls at Overtown -- A Life Like Maggy's -- Aunt 'Phroney's Boy -- Bibliography.