Includes bibliographical references and index

A sample of the Scotch-Irish -- Our folks at Londonderry -- "The times that tried men's souls" -- Rural New England fifty years ago -- My early school-days -- Adieu to New Hampshire -- Westhaven -- My apprenticeship -- My faith -- A year by Lake Erie -- My first experiences in New York -- Getting into business -- Temperance in all things -- Politics -- Play-days -- Triumph -- Log-cabin days -- The Tribune -- Socialism -- Socialistic efforts -- Harry Clay -- Margaret Fuller -- Beggars and borrowers -- Dramatic memories -- "Old Zack" -- Congress ; Mileage -- Congress as it was -- Glamour -- Lake Superior ; Mining ; Chicago ; The prairies -- The great senators ; The Comprise of 1850 -- Libels and libel-suits -- Europe ; The World Exposition -- The dissolution of the Whig Party -- The slavery controversy -- The new era in politics -- My farm -- My farming -- "Seward, Weed, and Greeley" -- Europe revisited ; Paris ; Switzerland -- Two days in jail -- "The Banks Congress" ; The long contest for speaker -- Fremont ; Buchanan ; Douglas -- A ride across the plains -- The Rocky Mountains ; The Great Basin -- Utah ; Nevada -- The Sierra Nevada ; The Yosemite ; The big trees -- The future of California -- The presidential election of 1860 -- Secession ; How confronted -- Our Civil War ; Actual and possible -- Abraham Lincoln -- Jefferson Davis -- Authorship ; Writing history -- My dead -- Miscellanies -- Literature as a vocation -- Poets and poetry -- Reforms and reformers -- The grounds of protection -- Sundry lecturing reminiscences: A day's ride in Maine ; A ride across the Alleghanies ; A night-ride across the prairies ; A winter flood in Illinois -- Marriage and divorce: a discussion between Horace Greeley and Robert Dale Owen

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