CONTENTS
| Chapter | Page | |
| PROEM | [ix] | |
| I | Springvale by the Neosho | [13] |
| II | Jean Pahusca | [25] |
| III | The Hermit's Cave | [32] |
| IV | In the Prairie Twilight | [43] |
| V | A Good Indian | [56] |
| VI | When the Heart Beats Young | [73] |
| VII | The Foreshadowing of Peril | [85] |
| VIII | The Cost of Safety | [99] |
| IX | The Search for the Missing | [114] |
| X | O'Mie's Choice | [132] |
| XI | Golden Days | [150] |
| XII | A Man's Estate | [166] |
| XIII | The Topeka Rally | [184] |
| XIV | Deepening Gloom | [200] |
| XV | Rockport and "Rockport" | [217] |
| XVI | Beginning Again | [242] |
| XVII | In the Valley of the Arickaree | [261] |
| XVIII | The Sunlight on Old Glory | [277] |
| XIX | A Man's Business | [292] |
| XX | The Cleft in the Rock | [317] |
| XXI | The Call to Service | [334] |
| XXII | The Nineteenth Kansas Cavalry | [354] |
| XXIII | In Jean's Land | [370] |
| XXIV | The Cry of Womanhood | [390] |
| XXV | Judson Summoned | [403] |
| XXVI | O'Mie's Inheritance | [420] |
| XXVII | Sunset by the Sweetwater | [442] |
| XXVIII | The Heritage | [464] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
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| "Come, Phil," she cried, "come, crown me Queen of May here in April!" | [Frontispiece] |
| "Baronet, I think we are marching straight into Hell's jaws" | [158] |
| Every movement of ours had been watched by Indian scouts | [244] |
| Like the passing of a hurricane, horses, mules, men, all dashed toward the place | [288] |
| They came slowly toward us, the two captive women for whom we waited | [394] |