Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. In Small and Large Things Remembered ix
5. PROLOGUE. “A Scene of Wholesale Butchery”: A Document of Rural Ethnology 1
6. PART 1. “Aided by Boys upon Horseback, Who Carried Lanterns”: Boyhood in Rural Oregon
7. Introduction 21
8. CHAPTER 1. “The Hope and Life of the Nation”: Boys and Families on the Republican Landscape 25
9. CHAPTER 2. “A Child, Sick with Scarlet Fever”: The Traumas and Violence of Rural Childhood 44
10. CHAPTER 3. “Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child”: The Bad-Boy Problem and the Montgomery Parricide 61
11. PART 2. “One by One They Are Dropping Like the Autumn Leaves”: Agricultural Decline, Dying Pioneers, and Parricide
12. Introduction 91
13. CHAPTER 4. “The Pinching Economies of Life”: The Agrarian Crisis and the Murder of Parents 95
14. CHAPTER 5. “His People Being Pioneers”: Parricide in an Age of Death and an Era That Celebrated Killing 123
15. PART 3. “We’re Going to Hang Him Right Here, on This Tree”: Killing Loyd Montgomery
16. Introduction 153
17. CHAPTER 6. “The Scaffold Is All Framed and Ready to Be Put in Place”: Executing a Boy on an Altar of Global Capitalism 156
18. CHAPTER 7. “At 14½ Minutes His Heart Ceased to Beat”: A Boy’s Life from 4:30 p.m., 19 November 1895, to 7:26 a.m., 31 January 1896 169
19. EPILOGUE. “The Case of Loyd Montgomery Does Not End with His Death”: Burying a Boy and Digging Up the Past 213
20. Notes 223
21. Bibliography 265
22. Index 285
23. Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography 299