- 1Title page
- 2Chapter I — Discontent — Spirit of the Pioneer
- 3Chapter II — Leaving Home — A Maiden
- 4Chapter III — Chicago, Chasing a Will-O-The-Wisp
- 5Chapter IV — The P — N Company
- 6Chapter V — “Go West Young Man and Grow Up With the Country”
- 7Chapter VI — “And Where Is Oristown?” the Town on the Missouri
- 8Chapter VII — Oristown, the “Little Crow” Reservation
- 9Chapter VIII — Far Down the Pacific — The Proposal
- 10Chapter IX — The Return — Ernest Nicholson
- 11Chapter X — The Oklahoma Grafter
- 12Chapter XI — Dealin’ in Mules
- 13Chapter XII — The Homesteaders
- 14Chapter XIII — Imaginations Run Amuck
- 15Chapter XIV — The Surveyors
- 16Chapter XV — “Which Town Will the R.R. Strike?”
- 17Chapter XVI — Megory’s Day
- 18Chapter XVII — Ernest Nicholson’s Return — The Building West of Tow…
- 19Chapter XVIII — Comes Stanley, the Chief Engineer
- 20Chapter XIX — In the Valley of the Keya Paha. The Rivals. The Vigil…
- 21Chapter XX — The Outlaw’s Last Stand
- 22Chapter XXI — The Boom
- 23Chapter XXII — The President’s Proclamation
- 24Chapter XXIII — Where the Negro Fails
- 25Chapter XXIV — “And the Crowds Did Come.” The Prairie Fire
- 26Chapter XXV — The Scotch Girl
- 27Chapter XXVI — The Battle
- 28Chapter XXVII — The Sacrifice — Race Loyalty
- 29Chapter XXVIII — The Breeds
- 30Chapter XXIX — In the Valley of the Dog Ear
- 31Chapter XXX — Ernest Nicholson takes a hand
- 32Chapter XXXI — The McCRALINES
- 33Chapter XXXII — A Long Night
- 34Chapter XXXIII — The Survival of the Fittest
- 35Chapter XXXIV — East of State Street
- 36Chapter XXXV — An Uncrowned King
- 37Chapter XXXVI — A Snake in the Grass
- 38Chapter XXXVII — The Progressives and the Reactionaries
- 39Chapter XXXVIII — Sanctimonious Hypocrisy
- 40Chapter XXXIX — Beginning of the End
- 41Chapter XL — The Mennonites
- 42Chapter XLI — The Drouth
- 43Chapter XLII — A Year of Coincidences
- 44Chapter XLIII — “And Satan Came Also”
The Conquest
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