Table of Contents

Introduction     ix
Author's Foreword     xxi
Book I
My First Winter in Chicago     5
I Return to the Saddle     15
In the Footsteps of General Grant     24
Red Men and Buffalo     35
The Telegraph Trail     47
The Return of the Artist     61
London and Evening Dress     74
The Choice of the New Daughter     83
A Judicial Wedding     103
The New Daughter and Thanksgiving     117
My Father's Inheritance     127
We Tour the Oklahoma Prairie     142
Standing Rock and Lake McDonald     152
The Empty Room     168
Book II
A Summer in the High Country     181
The White House Musical     195
Signs of Change     203
The Old Pioneer Takes the Back Trail     215
New Life in the Old House     222
Mary Isabel's Chimney     236
The Fairy World of Childhood     250
The Old Soldier Gains a Granddaughter     265
"Cavanagh" and the "Winds of Destiny"     277
The Old Homestead Suffers Disaster     288
Darkness before the Dawn     299
A Spray of WildRoses     309
A Soldier of the Union Mustered Out     315
Author's Afterword     325