To Theodore Roosevelt 1
To the Reader 2
1.Enter the Man 5
2."When You Call Me That,Smile!" 10
3.Steve Treats 27
4.Deep into Cattle Land 36
5.Enter the Woman 48
6.Em'ly 52
7.Through Two Snows 67
8.The Sincere Spinster 70
9.The Spinster Meets the Unknown 74
10.Where Fancy Was Bred 82
11."You Re Going to Love Me Before We Get Through" 95
12.Quality and Equality 105
13.The Game and the Nation-Act First 113
14.Between the Acts 121
15.The Game and the Nation-Act Second 127
16.The Game and the Nation-Last Act 134
17.Scipio Moralizes 156
18."Would You Be a Parson?" 161
19.Dr.Macbride Begs Pardon 170
20.The Judge Ignores Particulars 175
21.In a State of Sin 180
22."What Is a Rustler?" 193
23.Various Points 201
24.A Letter with a Moral 210
25.Progress of the Lost Dog 214
26.Balaam and Pedro 227
27.Grandmother Stark 243
28.No Dream to Wake From 271
29.Word to Bennington 273
30.A Stable on the Flat 285
31.The Cottonwoods 297
32.Superstition Trail 306
33.The Spinster Loses Some Sleep 322
34.To Fit Her Finger 333
35.With Malice Aforethought 339
36.At Dunbarton 369