CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | A Historic Moment | [1] |
| II | Birth and Early Home | [7] |
| III | Boyhood and Student Days | [22] |
| IV | Fighting the Apaches and the Sioux | [44] |
| V | A Military Instructor | [56] |
| VI | In the Spanish War | [65] |
| VII | In the Philippines | [86] |
| VIII | Subjecting the Moros | [96] |
| IX | In Pursuit of Villa | [118] |
| X | Called to Command the American Expeditionary Forces in France | [131] |
| XI | Why America Went to War with Germany | [149] |
| XII | In England and France | [161] |
| XIII | At the Tomb of Napoleon | [171] |
| XIV | A Wreath for the Tomb of Lafayette | [181] |
| XV | Fourth of July in France and Bastile Day in America | [193] |
| XVI | Incidents and Characteristics | [203] |
| XVII | What Others Think of Him | [225] |
| XVIII | As a Writer and Speaker | [238] |
| XIX | The Man Behind the General | [242] |
| XX | His Military Record | [257] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| FACING PAGE | |
| General Pershing | [Frontispiece] |
| The Home of the Pershings, Laclede, Missouri | [10] |
| General Pershing As a Boy | [22] |
| The Church the Pershings Attended at Laclede | [28] |
| The Prairie Mound School | [28] |
| The Highland Military Academy | [34] |
| United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y. | [34] |
| Col. Huse, "Splendid Old Caleb" | [40] |
| Kirksville, Mo., State Normal School | [40] |
| The Lieutenant in the Family | [46] |
| General Foch and General Pershing | [254] |