| | PAGE |
| Preface, | [xi] |
| CHAPTER I. |
| Ancestry of Captain La Barge, | [1] |
| CHAPTER II. |
| Childhood and Youth, | [13] |
| CHAPTER III. |
| Enters the Fur Trade, | [22] |
| CHAPTER IV. |
| Cholera on the “Yellowstone,” | [32] |
| CHAPTER V. |
| Further Service at Cabanné’s, | [40] |
| CHAPTER VI. |
| Last Year at Cabanné’s, | [49] |
| CHAPTER VII. |
| Captain La Barge in “Opposition,” | [59] |
| CHAPTER VIII. |
| The Missouri River, | [73] |
| CHAPTER IX. |
| Kinds of Boats Used on the Missouri, | [90] |
| CHAPTER X. |
| Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River, | [115] |
| CHAPTER XI. |
| The Steamboat in the Fur Trade, | [133] |
| CHAPTER XII. |
| Voyage of 1843, | [141] |
| CHAPTER XIII. |
| Voyage of 1844, | [154] |
| CHAPTER XIV. |
| Changed Conditions, | [167] |
| CHAPTER XV. |
| Incidents on the River (1845–50), | [177] |
| CHAPTER XVI. |
| Incidents on the River (1851–53), | [189] |
| CHAPTER XVII. |
| Ice Break-up of 1856, | [200] |
| CHAPTER XVIII. |
| The Head of Navigation Reached, | [216] |
| CHAPTER XIX. |
| Fort Benton, | [222] |
| CHAPTER XX. |
| Abraham Lincoln on the Missouri, | [240] |