CHAPTER I.
Departure from Detroit CHAPTER II.
Michilimackinac--American Fur Company--Indian Trade--Mission School--Point St.Ignace CHAPTER III.
Arrival at Green Bay--Mrs.Arnot--General Root--Political Dispatches--A Summerset--Shanty-Town--M.

Rolette--Indian Morning Song--Mr.Cadle's Mission--Party at Miss Doty's--Misses Grignon--Mrs.Baird's Party--Mrs.Beall CHAPTER IV.
Arrangements for Travelling--Fox River--Judge Doty--Judge Reaume--M.

Boilvin--Canadian Voyageurs: their Songs--The Kakalin--Wish-tay-yun--Rev.Eleazar Williams--Passage through the Rapids--Grande Chute--Krissman CHAPTER V.
Beautiful Encampment--Winnebago Lake--Miss Four-Legs--Garlic Island--Wild Rice CHAPTER VI.
Breakfast at Betty More's--Judge Law--Fastidiousness; what came of it CHAPTER VII.
Butte des Morts--French Cognomens--Serpentine Course of Fox River--Lake Puckaway--Lac de Boeuf--Fort Winnebago.
CHAPTER VIII.
Major and Mrs.Twiggs--A Davis--An Indian Funeral--Conjugal Affliction--Indian Chiefs; Talk-English--The Wild-Cat--The Dandy CHAPTER IX.
Housekeeping--The First Dinner CHAPTER X.
Indian Payment--Pawnee Blanc--The Washington Woman--Raising Funds CHAPTER XI.
Louisa--Garrison Life--Dr.Newhall--Affliction--Domestic Accommodations--Ephraim--New-Year's Day--Native Custom--Day-kau-ray's Views of Education--Captain Harney's Mince-Pie CHAPTER XII.
Lizzie Twiggs--Preparation for a Journey--The Regimental Tailor CHAPTER XIII.
eparture from Fort Winnebago--Duck Creek--Upset in a Canoe--Pillon--Encamping in Winter--Four Lakes--Indian Encampment--Blue Mound--Morrison's--A Tennessee Woman CHAPTER XIV.
Rev.Mr.Kent--Losing One's Way--A Tent Blown Down--Discovery of a Fence--Hamilton's Diggings--Frontier Housekeeping--Wm.
S.Hamilton--A Miner--Hard Riding--Kellogg's Grove CHAPTER XV.
Rock River--- Dixon's--John Ogie--Missing the Trail--Hours of Trouble--Famine in the Camp--Relief CHAPTER XVI.
A Pottowattamie Lodge--A Tempest--Piche's--Hawley's--The Du Page--Mr.Dogherty--The Aux Plaines--Mrs.Lawton--Wolf Point--Chicago CHAPTER XVII.
Fort Dearborn--Chicago in 1831--First Settlement of Chicago--John Kinzie, Sen .-- -Fate of George Forsyth--Trading Posts--Canadian Voyageurs--M.

St.Jean--Louis la Liberte CHAPTER XVIII.
Massacre at Chicago CHAPTER XIX.
Massacre, continued--Mrs.Helm--Ensign Ronan--Captain Wells--Mrs.Holt--Mrs.Heald--The Sau-ga-nash--Sergeant Griffith--Mrs.
Burns--Black Partridge and Mrs.Lee--Nau-non-gee and Sergeant Hays CHAPTER XX.
Treatment of American Prisoners by the British--Captivity of Mr.
Kinzie--Battle on Lake Erie--Cruelty of General Proctor's Troops--General Harrison--Rebuilding of Fort Dearborn--Red Bird--A Humorous Incident--Cession of the Territory around Chicago CHAPTER XXI.
Severe Spring Weather--Pistol-Firing--Milk Punch--A Sermon--Pre-emption to "Kinzie's Addition"-- Liberal Sentiments CHAPTER XXII.
The Captives CHAPTER XXIII.
Colonel McKillip--Second-Sight--Ball at Hickory Creek--Arrival of the "Napoleon"-- Troubles of Embarkation CHAPTER XXIV.
Departure for Port Winnebago--A Frightened Indian--Encampment at Dunkley's Grove--Horses Lost--Getting Mired--An Ague cured by a Rattlesnake--Crystal Lake--Story of the Little Rail CHAPTER XXV.
Return Journey, continued--Soldiers' Encampment--Big-Foot Lake--Village of Maunk-suck--A Young Gallant--Climbing--Mountain-Passes--Turtle Creek--Kosh-ko-nong--Crossing a Marsh--Twenty-Mile Prairie--Hastings's Woods--Duck Creek--Brunet--Home CHAPTER XXVI.
The Agency--The Blacksmith's House--Building a Kitchen--Four-Legs, the Dandy--Indian Views of Civilization--Efforts of M.
Mazzuchelli--Charlotte CHAPTER XXVII.
The Cut-Nose--The Fawn--Visit of White Crow--Parting with Friends--Krissman--Louisa again--The Sunday-School CHAPTER XXVIII.
Plante--Removal--Domestic Inconveniences--Indian Presents--Grandmother Day-kau-ray--Indian Customs--Indian Dances--The Medicine-Dance--Indian Graves--Old Boilvin's Wake CHAPTER XXIX.
Indian Tales--Story of the Red Fox CHAPTER XXX.
Story of Shee-shee-banze CHAPTER XXXI.
Visit to Green Bay--Disappointment--Return Journey--Knaggs's--Blind Indian--Ma-zhee-gaw-gaw Swamp--Bellefontaine CHAPTER XXXII.
Commencement of the Sauk War--Winnebago Council--Crely--Follett--Bravery--The Little Elk--An Alarm--Man-Eater and his Party--An Exciting Dance CHAPTER XXXIII.
Fleeing from the Enemy--Mata--Old Smoker--Meeting with Menomonees--Raising the Wind--Garlic Island--Winnebago Rapids--The Waubanakees--Thunder-Storm--Vitelle--Guardapie--Fort Howard CHAPTER XXXIV.
Panic at Green Bay--Tidings of Cholera--Green Bay Flies--Doyle, the Murderer--Death of Lieutenant Foster--A Hardened Criminal--Good News from the Seat of War--Departure for Home--Shipwreck at the Grand Chute--A Wet Encampment--An Unexpected Arrival--Reinforcement of Volunteers--La Grosse Americaine--Arrival at Home CHAPTER XXXV.
Conclusion of the War--Treaty at Rock Island--Cholera among the Troops--Wau-kaun-kah--Wild-Cat's Frolic at the Mee-kan--Surrender of the Winnebago Prisoners CHAPTER XXXVI.
Delay in the Annual Payment--Scalp-Dances--Groundless Alarm--Arrival of Governor Porter--Payment--Escape of the Prisoners--Neighbors Lost--Reappearance--Robineau--Bellaire CHAPTER XXXVII.
Agathe--"Kinzie's Addition"-- Tomah--Indian Acuteness--Indian Simplicity CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Famine--Day-kau-ray's Daughter--Noble Resolution of a Chief--Bread for the Hungry--Rev.Mr.Kent--An Escaped Prisoner--The Cut-Nose again--Leave-taking with our Red Children--Departure from Fort Winnebago APPENDIX THE "EARLY DAY" IN THE NORTHWEST..