| | [EPOCH THE FIRST] | |
| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I | [Agnes] | 13 |
| II | [The Homesteader] | 21 |
| III | [At the Sod House] | 28 |
| IV | [She Could Never Be Anything to Him] | 37 |
| V | [When the Indians Shot the Town Up] | 43 |
| VI | [The Infidel, A Jew and A German] | 49 |
| VII | [The Day Before] | 56 |
| VIII | [An Enterprising Young Man] | 61 |
| IX | ["Christine! Christine!"] | 75 |
| X | ["You Have Never Been This Way Before"] | 80 |
| XI | [What Jean Baptiste Found in the Well] | 85 |
| XII | [Miss Stewart Receives a Caller] | 89 |
| XIII | [The Coming of the Railroad] | 97 |
| XIV | [The Administrating Angel] | 107 |
| XV | [Oh, My Jean] | 115 |
| XVI | ["Bill" Prescott Proposes] | 123 |
| XVII | [Harvest Time and What Came with It] | 131 |
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| | [EPOCH THE SECOND] | |
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| I | [Regarding the Intermarriage of Races] | 143 |
| II | [Which?] | 153 |
| III | [Memories—N. Justine McCarthy] | 159 |
| IV | [Orlean] | 174 |
| V | [A Proposal: A Proposition; A Certain Mrs. Pruitt—And a Letter] | 186 |
| VI | [The Prairie Fire] | 190 |
| VII | [Vanity] | 196 |
| VIII | [Married] | 207 |
| IX | [Orlean Receives a Letter and Advice] | 212 |
| X | [Eugene Crook] | 221 |
| XI | [Reverend McCarthy Pays a Visit] | 227 |
| XII | [Reverend McCarthy Decides to Set Baptiste Right, But—] | 234 |
| XIII | [The Wolf] | 240 |
| XIV | [The Contest] | 247 |
| XV | [Compromised] | 252 |
| XVI | [The Evil Genius] | 259 |
| XVII | [The Coward] | 267 |
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| | [EPOCH THE THIRD] | |
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| I | [Chicago—The Boomerang] | 279 |
| II | [The Great Question] | 284 |
| III | [Glavis Makes A Promise] | 294 |
| IV | [The Gambler's Story] | 299 |
| V | [The Preacher's Evil Influence] | 305 |
| VI | [More of the Preacher's Work] | 311 |
| VII | [A Great Astronomer] | 317 |
| VIII | [N. Justine McCarthy Preaches a Sermon] | 325 |
| IX | [What the People Were Saying] | 332 |
| X | ["Until Then"] | 339 |
| XI | ["It's the Wrong Number"] | 346 |
| XII | [Mrs. Pruitt Effects a Plan] | 354 |
| XIII | [Mrs. Merley] | 363 |
| XIV | ["Oh, Merciful God! Close Thou Mine Eyes!"] | 369 |
| XV | ["Love You—God, I Hate You!"] | 376 |
| XVI | [A Strange Dream] | 385 |
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| | [EPOCH THE FOURTH] | |
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| I | [The Drought] | 395 |
| II | [The Foreclosure] | 400 |
| III | [Irene Grey] | 407 |
| IV | [What Might Have Been] | 414 |
| V | ["Tell Me Why You Didn't Answer the Last LetterI Wrote You"] | 421 |
| VI | [The Story] | 427 |
| VII | [Her Birthright "for a Mess of Pottage"] | 436 |
| VIII | [Action] | 440 |
| IX | [Gossip] | 446 |
| X | [A Discovery—and a Surprise] | 456 |
| XI | [The Bishop's Inquisition] | 464 |
| XII | [The Bishop Acts] | 479 |
| XIII | [Where the Weak Must Be Strong] | 482 |
| XIV | [The Trial—the Lie—"As Guilty As Hell!"] | 488 |
| XV | [Grim Justice] | 495 |
| XVI | [A Friend] | 502 |
| XVII | [The Mystery] | 508 |
| XVIII | ["Vengeance is Mine. I Will Repay"] | 515 |
| XIX | [When the Truth Became Known] | 523 |
| XX | [As it Was in the Beginning] | 529 |