| CHAPTER I |
| The Lewis and Clark Centenary Exposition in Portland—The Great Captains—Their Guides, Chabonneau and Sacajawea (The Bird-Woman) | [13] |
| CHAPTER II |
| The Visit of the Flathead Indian Chiefs to St. Louis—Is the Story Authentic?—Incidents—Death of Two Chiefs—The Banquet Speech—Sketches of Indian Life | [22] |
| CHAPTER III |
| The Effect of the Banquet Speech—How it Moved Christian People—The American Board Sends Drs. Parker and Whitman to Investigate—Whitman's Indian Boys—His Marriage and Second Journey | [36] |
| CHAPTER IV |
| Old Click-Click-Clackety-Clackety, the Historic Wagon—Camping and Incidents, and the End of the Journey | [61] |
| CHAPTER V |
| The Home-coming—The Beginning of Missionary Life—Clarissa—The Little White Cayuse Queen—Her Death—Sketches of Daily Events | [74] |
| CHAPTER VI |
| Brief Sketch of Discovery and History of the Oregon Country—Who Owned—By What Title—The Various Treaties—The Final Contest | [89] |
| CHAPTER VII |
| Why the United States Dickered with England for Half a Century Before Asserting her Rights—American Statesmen had a Small Appreciation of the Value of Oregon, and were Opposed to Expansion | [96] |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| The Conditions of Oregon in 1842—The Arrival of American Immigrants at Whitman's Mission—The News They Brought—Whitman's Great Winter Ride to Washington—Incidents of the Journey—Reaches the Capital | [104] |
| CHAPTER IX |
| Whitman in Washington—His Conference with President Tyler, Secretary Webster, and Secretary of War Porter—Visits Greeley in New York, and the American Board—Rests, and Returns to the Frontier | [129] |
| CHAPTER X |
| Whitman Joins the Great Emigrating Column—News of its Safe Arrival in Oregon Reaches Washington in 1844—Its Effect Upon the People, and Oregon's Importance Acknowledged—The Political Contest—The Massacre at Waiilatpuan | [148] |
| CHAPTER XI |
| The Memorials to Whitman—Why Delayed—Why History was not Sooner Written—Whitman College the Grand Monument | [172] |