Recollections of a busy life

A sample of the Scotch-Irish.

Our folks at Londonderry.

"The times that tried men's souls".

Rural New England fifty years ago.

My early school-days.

Adieu to New Hampshire.

Westhaven.

My apprenticeship.

My faith.

A year by Lake Erie.

My first experiences in New York.

Getting into business.

Temperance in all things.

Politics.

Play-days.

Triumph.

Log-cabin days.

The Tribune.

Socialism.

Socialistic efforts.

Harry Clay.

Margaret Fuller.

Beggars and borrowers.

Dramatic memories.

"Old Zack".

Congress ; Mileage.

Congress as it was.

Glamour.

Lake Superior ; Mining ; Chicago ; The prairies.

The great senators ; The compromise of 1850.

Libels and libel-suits.

Europe ; The world's exposition.

The dissolution of the Whig party.

The slavery controversy.

The new era in politics.

My farm.

My farming.

"Seward, Weed, and Greeley".

Europe revisited ; Paris ; Switzerland.

Two days in jail.

"The Banks Congress." ; The long contest for Speaker.

Fremont ; Buchanan ; Douglas.

A ride across the Plains.

The Rocky Mountains ; The Great Basin.

Utah ; Nevada.

The Sierra Nevada ; The Yosemite ; The big trees.

The future of California.

The presidential election of 1860.

Secession, how confronted.

Our Civil War: actual and possible.

Abraham Lincoln.

Jefferson Davis.

Authorship ; Writing history.

My dead.

Literature as a vocation.

Poets and poetry.

Reforms and reformers.

The grounds of protection.

Sundry lecturing reminiscences.

Marriage and divorce: a discussion between Horace Greely and Robert Dale Owen.