Table of Contents
Prologue 1
Chapter 1 Child of the Frontier 5
Chapter 2 A Pueblo and Some Puritans 19
Chapter 3 Wanderings and Apprenticeships 33
Chapter 4 The Tonto Basin Feud 43
Chapter 5 Tombstone 58
Chapter 6 The Tigers of the Human Species 73
Chapter 7 Hunting Tigers with Tigers 87
Chapter 8 A Mine, a Wedding, a Change of Plans 99
Chapter 9 To Africa 117
Chapter 10 To the Frontier 128
Chapter 11 War in Matabeleland 140
Chapter 12 The King's Spoor 151
Chapter 13 The Shangani Patrol 157
Chapter 14 Spears into Pegs 169
Chapter 15 Cashing In 182
Chapter 16 War Again 195
Chapter 17 The Mouthpiece of God 209
Chapter 18 The Klondike 223
Chapter 19 Chief of Scouts 240
Chapter 20 Behind Enemy Lines 256
Chapter 21 Celebrity and Hinterlands 273
Chapter 22 British East Africa 291
Chapter 23 Prospects and Losses 305
Chapter 24 A President Saved, Another Fortune Postponed 320
Chapter 25 Hippos and Spies 336
Chapter 26 Scouting for Mines and for Roosevelt 344
Chapter 27 Closing the Circle 355
Chapter 28 After the Bonanza 362
Appendix: The Controversies 373
Acknowledgments 387
Notes 389
Selected Bibliography 411
Index 419