ch. 1. Changing attitudes
ch. 2. Physical characteristics of wet prairies and bogs
ch. 3. Native American occupation
ch. 4. Early nineteenth-century views of wetlands
ch. 5. Landowners, cattlemen, railroads, and tenants on wet prairies
ch. 6. Draining and agricultural change on wet prairies
ch. 7. Occupying, draining, and abandoning northern bogs and swamps
ch. 8. Utilizing and conserving wet prairies since 1930
ch. 9. Changing wetland images and values.