Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xii
4. Foreword xv
5. The Gift of a Found Half Moon 1
6. Typus Orbis Terrarum 2
7. A Mighty Fortress Is Our God 6
8. Considering Her Answer to a Letter Sent By Emigrant, Addressed: “Catherine Sager, Somewhere in Oregon” 7
9. While Preparing to Ride to a Cayuse Village of New Converts Inundated by Measles, Dr. Marcus Whitman Inventories His Pack Horse’s Bags While Considering: Which Sermon, Which Psalms, Which Prayers; near Ft. Walla Walla, Oregon Country, November 1847 14
10. Lament of the Slatted Sunbonnets 16
11. Every Stormy Wind That Blows 24
12. Cloth 25
13. The Doll 30
14. The Stove 33
15. Brother Churchianity’s Garden 37
16. An Answer For Mr. Anderson 42
17. That Long Looked-For Day 45
18. “Verbena Tea and Dill Hinder the Witches of Their Will” 47
19. Cynthia, Judge Stafford’s First Wife 48
20. About These Trumpeters That Line My Walls 53
21. Mrs. Darby, Third Cousin to a Royal Confectioner, Gives Advice on Baking a Wedding Cake Modeled after the Spire atop London’s St. Bride’s Church” 56
22. The Brides of Christ Consider the Hunger of 100 Children, the 40 Sick, and Many Old Men Who Linger without Relative or Memory 58
23. The Widow: Her Song without Words sans Piano 63
24. At First, Judge Bacon was Reluctant to allow his Daughter to be Courted by the Son of a Blacksmith 67
25. Jésus et Marie, ma force et ma gloire 68
26. The Matter of the Raspberries 69
27. Je Mets Ma Confiance 72
28. How We Got On 75
29. The Grass Hunter 79
30. On the Second Through Train 84
31. The Gift of Granny Wintersteen 86
32. Lucy Ann Shows Off Her Scrapbook and Talks About the Art of Regulating Temperatures 87
33. Kelp 92
34. Gifted to Miss Lydia Corum upon her Marriage to Anderson Deckard 95
35. As Granny Wintersteen Unpacks Her Midwife’s Case, She Realizes that She Has Forgotten Her Collapsible Shovel Used for Sterilizing Linens by Fire 99
36. Kloh-Kloh 100
37. Cutting Her Out from the Flock 104
38. A Good Many Brides Today are a Pampered Self-Indulgent Lot 107
39. Ida Mae Recalls the Broken Plates of her China Anniversary 109
40. How Firm a Foundation 113
41. You Haven’t Asked About My Wedding Or What I Wore 114
42. Abide with Me 117
43. Brown Cloth-Covered Diary of Memoranda & Cash Accounts 118
44. A Bridesmaid’s Tale 121
45. If No Impediment Shall Be Alleged 124
46. Oh Promise Me 126
47. Afterword 127
48. Acknowledgments 139
49. Notes on Hymns, Music, and Lyrics 141