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| I. | Something about my Home and Track’s End: with how I leave the one and get acquainted with Pike at the other. | [1] |
| II. | The rest of my second Night at Track’s End, and part of another: with some Things which happen between. | [12] |
| III. | A Fire and a Blizzard: with how a great many People go away from Track’s End and how some others come. | [22] |
| IV. | We prepare to fight the Robbers and I make a little Trip out to Bill Mountain’s House: after I come back I show what a great Fool I can be. | [32] |
| V. | Alone in Track’s End I repent of my hasty Action: with what I do at the Headquarters House, and the whole Situation in a Nutshell. | [43] |
| VI. | Some Account of what I do and think the first Day alone: with a Discovery by Kaiser at the End. | [52] |
| VII. | I have a Fight and a Fright: after which I make some Plans for the Future and take up my Bed and move. | [61] |
| VIII. | I begin my Letters to my Mother and start my Fortifications: then I very foolishly go away, meet with an Accident, and see Something which throws me into the utmost Terror. | [69] |
| IX. | More of a strange Christmas: I make Kaiser useful in an odd Way, together with what I see from under the Depot Platform. | [79] |
| X. | A Townful of Indians: with how I hide the Cow, and think of Something which I don’t believe the Indians will like. | [88] |
| XI. | I give the savage Indians a great Scare, and then gather up my scattered Family at the end of a queer Christmas Day. | [97] |
| XII. | One of my Letters to my Mother, in which I tell of many Things and especially of a Mystery which greatly puzzles and alarms me. | [105] |
| XIII. | Some Talk at Breakfast, and various other Family Affairs: with Notes on the Weather, and a sight of Something to the Northwest. | [115] |
| XIV. | I have an exciting Hunt and get some Game, which I bring Home with a vast deal of Labor, only to lose Part of it in a startling Manner: together with a Dream and an Awakening. | [128] |
| XV. | The mysterious Fire, and Something further about my wretched State of Terror: with an Account of my great System of Tunnels and famous Fire Stronghold. | [141] |
| XVI. | Telling of how Pike and his Gang come and of what Kaiser and I do to get ready for them: together with the Way we meet them. | [153] |
| XVII. | The Fight, and not much else: except a little Happening at the End which startles me greatly. | [162] |
| XVIII. | After the Fight: also a true Account of the great Blizzard: with how I go to sleep in the Stronghold and am awakened before Morning. | [171] |
| XIX. | I find out who my Visitor is: with Something about him, but with more about the Chinook which came out of the Northwest: together with what I do with the Powder, and how I again wake up suddenly. | [185] |
| XX. | What the Outlaws do on their second Visit: with the awful Hours I pass through, and how I find myself at the End. | [203] |
| XXI. | After the Explosion: some cheerful Talk with the Thieves, and a strange but welcome Message out of the Storm. | [210] |
| XXII. | The last Chapter, but a good Deal in it: a free Lodging for the Night, with a little Speech by Mr. Clerkinwell: then, how Kaiser and I take a long Journey, and how we never go that Way again. | [220] |