Prologue: Green River Station, 1869                IX
Part One: Northern Days
  A Mission to America                             3  (34)
  Rising on the Prairie                            37 (48)
  The Hornets' Nest of War                         85 (24)
Part Two: Canyons of the Colorado
  Westward the Naturalist                          109(46)
  Down the Great Unknown                           155(48)
  Surveying the High Plateaus                      203(58)
  Kapurats                                         261(36)
  The Sublimest Thing on Earth                     297(40)
  Democracy Encounters the Desert                  337(46)
Part Three: Washington, D.C.
  Myths and Maps                                   383(54)
  Redeeming the Earth                              437(30)
  The Problem of the West                          467(66)
  Journey's End                                    533(42)
Notes                                              575(36)
Bibliography                                       611(34)
Acknowledgments                                    645(2)
Index                                              647