50 Chapters
- 1 The Blue Wall
- 2 Wars and Rumors of Wars
- 3 Charlestown
- 4 Temple Bow
- 5 Cram's Hell
- 6 Man proposes, but God disposes
- 7 In Sight of the Blue Wall once more
- 8 The Nollichucky Trace
- 9 On the Wilderness Trail
- 10 Harrodstown
- 11 Fragmentary
- 12 The Campaign begins
- 13 Kaskaskia
- 14 How the Kaskaskians were made Citizens
- 15 Days of Trial
- 16 Davy goes to Cahokia
- 17 The Sacrifice
- 18 “An' ye had been where I had been”
- 19 The Hair Buyer Trapped
- 20 The Campaign ends
- 21 In the Cabin
- 22 “The Beggars are come to Town”
- 23 We go to Danville
- 24 I cross the Mountains once more
- 25 I meet an Old Bedfellow
- 26 The Widow Brown's
- 27 I meet a Hero
- 28 To St. Louis
- 29 “Cherchez la Femme”
- 30 The Keel Boat
- 31 The Strange City
- 32 Les Îles
- 33 Monsieur Auguste entrapped
- 34 Retribution
- 35 The Rights of Man
- 36 The House above the Falls
- 37 Louisville celebrates
- 38 Of a Sudden Resolution
- 39 The House of the Honecombed Tiles
- 40 Madame la Vicomtesse
- 41 The Disposal of the Sieur de St. Gré
- 42 At Lamarque's
- 43 Monsieur le Baron
- 44 The Scourge
- 45 “In the Midst of Life”
- 46 Visions, and an Awakening
- 47 A MYSTERY
- 48 “To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores”
- 49 An Episode in the Life of a Man
- 50 AFTERWORD