Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- THE IRON HUNTER -- Glossary -- Contents -- 1 Wolves-Human and Otherwise -- 2 What's in Your Name or Mine? -- 3 Natural Born Rebels -- 4 Poverty That Cramps and Then Expands the Soul -- 5 Wild Boyhood Dreams Fill My Mind and I Act Upon Them -- 6 Swept into the Human Maelstrom of Chicago -- 7 I Drive a Coal Wagon-Pile Lumber-Capture a Murderer and Dock Wallop in Milwaukee -- 8 Married on Credit I Give My Bride a Five-Cent Bouquet and We Take a Wedding Trip on a Street Car -- 9 I Undertake the Study of Iron Ore and Engage in Exploration and Prospecting -- 10 My First Trip into the Trackless Wilds of Unexplored Canada -- 11 Charmed by the Beauty of Sault de Sainte Marie and Fascinated by Its Environs I Choose It as a Home for Life -- 12 I Am Used as a Political Fulcrum by Jay Hubbell to Pry Out Sam Stephenson -- 13 The Sacrifice of General Alger to Appease Political Blood Howlers -- 14 My Association with Hazen S. Pingree Plunges Me into Politics Deeper than Ever -- 15 I Become a Candidate for Governor to Succeed Hazen S. Pingree -- 16 The Poetry, Charm, Romance, and Usefulness of Iron Ore -- 17 Iron Ore Bacteria -- 18 Reading the Story of the Stones as Printed on the Pages of the Earth's Surface -- 19 Great Lean Outcropping of Iron Ore Unseen under the Very Eyes of the World -- 20 Into the Heart of the Arctic Lapland Where the Mysteries Are Attuned to the Muffled Footfalls of Silence -- 21 Deposits of Iron Ore and Beds of Coal under the Shadow of the Pole -- 22 A Starvation Hike to Hunt for a Hidden Range of Iron Ore -- 23 Fatherly Attitude of John W. Gates and John J. Mitchell -- 24 Eating Moose Meat from One Year's End to Another at the Moose Mountain Camp -- 25 Sir Donald Mann Proposes to Use Double-Bitted Axes as Weapons in a Duel with a Russian Count -- 26 World Workers in Iron in All Ages.

27 Concentration of Lean Ores in the United States-Siderite-Magnetite-Hematite -- 28 Accidental Fortunes from Iron Ore -- 29 Mesaba Range in Minnesota, the Greatest Iron Ore District the World Has Ever Known -- 30 Consideration of Charles Evans Hughes, Woodrow Wilson, and Others in Searching for a Successor to James B. Angell at the University of Michigan -- 31 Tom May's Kerry Philosophy a Social Thermometer -- 32 I Am Elected Governor of Michigan -- 33 I Start a Fight against the Saloon That Keeps Up to the End -- 34 Fighting for the Life of Michigan against the Human Bloodsuckers That Subsist on Society Everywhere -- 35 My Part in the Presidential Campaign of 1912 -- 36 Off for Madagascar, Asia, and Africa for a Long Tour in the Unusual Parts of the Earth -- 37 Some References to Burma, Ceylon, Cochin-China, Turkestan, Persia -- 38 I Discover Another Great Iron Ore Range That Will Someday Help to Supply the World -- 39 Many People of Michigan Again Urge Me to Take Up the Gonfalon for Better Things in the State -- 40 In Conclusion.