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| [CHAPTER I.] |
| Town and Country contrasted, in relation to Vice and Crime.—A Display Party to avoid Bankruptcy.—Gaut Gurley, and other leading Characters, introduced as Actors in this scene of City Life | [1] |
| [CHAPTER II.] |
| Retrospect of the life of the Country Merchant, in making Money,to become a “Solid Man of Boston.”—Humble Beginnings.—Temptedinto Smuggling from Canada in Embargo times, andmakes a Fortune, by the aid of the desperate and daring Servicesof Gaut Gurley.—A Sketch of the Wild Scenes of Smugglingover the British line into Vermont and New Hampshire.—Removalto the City | [15] |
| [CHAPTER III.] |
| Gambling (an allegory) invented by the Fiends, and is proclaimedthe Premium Vice by Lucifer.—A Gambling Scene between GautGurley and the merchant, Mark Elwood.—The Failure of thelatter.—The Refusal of his brother, Arthur Elwood, to help him.—TheSurprise and Distress of his Family | [27] |
| [CHAPTER IV.] |
| The Downward Path of the Habitual Gambler.—His Family sharingin the Degradation, and becoming the suffering Victims of hisVices.—The Sudden Resolve to be a Man again, and remove to anunsettled Country, to begin Life anew in the Woods | [38] |
| [CHAPTER V.] |
| The moral and intellectual Influences of Forest Life.—Scenery ofUmbagog.—Description of Elwood’s new Home in the Woods.—TheBurning of his first Slash.—His House catches Fire, and heand his Wife engage in extinguishing it, praying for the return oftheir Son, Claud Elwood, to help them in their terrible strait | [51] |
| [CHAPTER VI.] |
| Claud Elwood and his Forest Musings.—Dangerous Assault, andslaying of a Moose.—Rescue of Gaut’s Daughter from the enragedanimal.—Strange Developments.—Incipient Love Scene.—Trout-catching.—Returnof Claud and Phillips (the Old Hunterhere first introduced), to aid in saving the Elwood Cottage fromthe fire.—The Thunder-shower comes to complete the conquest ofthe fire.—The destruction of the King Pine by a Thunderbolt | [60] |
| [CHAPTER VII.] |
| Journey up the Magalloway, to bring home the slaughtered Moose.—Loveand its entanglements; its Sunshine now, its Storms in thedistance | [76] |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] |
| Jaunt of Claud and Phillips over the Rapids to the next Great Lake,for Deer-hunting and Trout-catching.—Rescue of Fluella, the IndianChief’s Daughter, from Drowning in the Rapids.—Herremarkable Character for Intellect and Beauty | [87] |
| [CHAPTER IX.] |
| The Logging Bee.—The introduction of a New Character in ComicalCodman, the Trapper.—The Woodmen’s Banquet.—Theforming of the Trapping and Hunting Company, to start on anExpedition to the Upper Lakes | [108] |
| [CHAPTER X.] |
| Developments of the dark and designing character of Gaut Gurley.—Tomah,the college-learned Indian | [124] |
| [CHAPTER XI.] |
| Mrs. Elwood’s Bodings, on account of the connection of her Husbandand Son with Gaut and his Daughter.—Her Interview withFluella.—Claud’s Interview with Fluella and her Father, theChief.—The Chief’s History of his Tribe | [137] |
| [CHAPTER XII.] |
| Adventures of the Trappers the first day of their Expedition up theLakes.—Bear-hunt, Trout-catching, etc.—Introduction of Carvil,an amateur Hunter from the Green Mountains | [154] |
| [CHAPTER XIII.] |
| The Trappers’ Central Camp on the Maguntic Lake.—ThreeStories of most remarkable Adventures in the Woods, told at theCamp-fire by three Hunters and Trappers | [175] |
| [CHAPTER XIV.] |
| The Voyage to Oquossak, the farthest large Lake.—The stationingof the Trappers at different points on the Lake.—The appointmentof Gaut as Keeper of the Central Camp, on the Lake below.—TheResults of their Fall’s Operations, and Preparations to returnHome | [200] |
| [CHAPTER XV.] |
| The Trappers overtaken by a terrible Snow-storm.—Their Sufferingbefore reaching Central Camp.—The discovery that this Camphad been Burnt, and Robbed of their whole Stock of Furs.—TheirProvidential Escape from Death | [211] |
| [CHAPTER XVI.] |
| The Legal Prosecution to Recover their Furs, or punish Gaut, thesupposed Criminal.—The unsatisfactory Result, and Gaut’s darkmenaces of Revenge | [235] |
| [CHAPTER XVII.] |
| Gaut’s Efforts to get the old Company off into the Forest, on aSpring Expedition.—All refuse but Elwood and Son, who concludeto go.—Love Entanglements, and the boding Fears ofMrs. Elwood | [246] |
| [CHAPTER XVIII.] |
| Opening of Spring in the Settlement.—The Trappers fail to Return.—Gautcomes without them.—The Alarm and Suspicionsof the Settlers that he has Murdered the Elwoods.—The CircumstantialEvidence | [260] |
| [CHAPTER XIX.] |
| The attempt to Arrest Gaut.—His retreat to a Cave in the Mountain.—Hisfinal Dislodgement and Capture, for Trial and Examination | [275] |
| [CHAPTER XX.] |
| Retrospect of the Adventures of Gaut and the Elwoods.—TheMurder of Mark Elwood, and the Wounding of Claud, by Gaut.—Claud’slife saved by Fluella | [299] |
| [CHAPTER XXI.] |
| Gaut’s Trial, Sentence, and Imprisonment.—General Denouementof the Story.—Gaut breaks Jail, escapes, and becomes a desperatePirate-leader | [324] |
| [SEQUEL.] |
| Awful Fate of a Pirate Ship.—Gaut’s Death | [350] |