Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. Preface xvii
5. one Boyhood 1
6. two Life in the North 11
7. three Peonies, Plums, and Passions 21
8. four Friends and Idols 27
9. five Sensations, Dreams, Visions 33
10. six Looking for Home 39
11. seven To Broadway and Back 45
12. eight Horses to Carry Me 53
13. nine Alexandria Bay 59
14. ten Acting the Part 63
15. eleven Hitchhiking 69
16. twelve “That’s All Yer Worth” 75
17. thirteen Brutes 81
18. fourteen Portrait of a Student 87
19. fifteen Convalescence 97
20. sixteen Cathy B. 101
21. seventeen St. Lawrence 105
22. eighteen Amid the Bookshelves 111
23. nineteen My Beautiful Rose 117
24. twenty Motley and Bogan 123
25. twenty-one More People and Places 129
26. twenty-two Native Consciousness 139
27. Coda 147