Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Table of Contents xiii
5. List of Illustrations xv
6. 1. The Minister's Charge 1
7. 2. Professor of Literature, "or Something Kin" 23
8. 3. The Dean 41
9. 4. Main-Travelled Roads and Byways 58
10. 5. Prairie Folks 76
11. 6. Prairie Songs and Prairie Pub 94
12. 7. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 117
13. 8. Wayside Courtships 135
14. 9. Her Mountain Lover 156
15. 10. "Manly Poetry and a High Ideal" 171
16. 11. The Tyranny of the Dark 186
17. 12. The Sunset Edition 205
18. 13. A Son of the Middle Border 221
19. 14. A Literary Comeback 239
20. 15. The Hall of Mirrors 260
21. 16. A Literary Nomad 287
22. Bibliography 311
23. Index 335