Top
| Introduction | |
| Song for Orleans County | p. 1 |
| Upstate Is a Country | p. 1 |
| Author's Note | p. 19 |
| Windfall Fiddle | p. 19 |
| The Civil War and Me | p. 34 |
| Boy Reading | p. 40 |
| Bride of Apollo | p. 42 |
| Melanchthon Woolsey Stryker | p. 45 |
| A Reminiscence of John V. A. Weaver - Notes for a Biographer | p. 48 |
| Fiorello La Guardia | p. 54 |
| The Exile (Farewell to the Adirondacks) | p. 63 |
| To Make a River | p. 64 |
| Apple Pickers | p. 69 |
| Proud Lady-Ghosts | p. 70 |
| Nathan Meets the Prophet Elijah | p. 76 |
| Cooperstown | p. 82 |
| Hanging Day | p. 93 |
| "O the Ee-rye-ee Was Risin'" | p. 101 |
| Author's Note | p. 105 |
| How John Darling Went Fishing and Caught a Bride | p. 105 |
| Philetus Bumpus | p. 108 |
| The Whooper Swan of Olivebridge | p. 110 |
| Cupola Song | p. 117 |
| Hudson River Aesthete | p. 118 |
| America's Victorian Homes | p. 133 |
| The Fowlers, Practical Phrenologists | p. 137 |
| O Ye Great Waters! | p. 149 |
| The Ghost of the River Octagon | p. 152 |
| Three Crops | p. 155 |
| Woods Secret | p. 167 |
| "I Am a Cayuga" | p. 168 |
| Budgets as Death Warrants | p. 177 |
| The Big Party | p. 179 |
| The Champlain Valley | p. 182 |
| The Climber | p. 194 |
| The Years of Grace | p. 195 |
| The Mad Poet of Broadway | p. 203 |
| Green-Gown | p. 210 |
| The Family Mountains | p. 213 |
| Author's Note | p. 216 |
| When a Bronx Cheer Was a Gardaloo | p. 216 |
| The Adventures of Cooper's Famous Scout, Natty Bumppo | p. 219 |
| Foreword to Legends from the Shawangunk | p. 223 |
| Rattlesnake Hunter | p. 225 |
| The Lavender Evening Dress | p. 231 |
| The Lesson | p. 235 |
| "You Can't Win Looking Back" | p. 236 |
| The Wraith on Cedar Street | p. 240 |
| The Womanish Man | p. 243 |
| Three Decades and a River | p. 247 |
| How Boscobel Was Saved | p. 251 |
| Twilight of the Storm King | p. 260 |
| The Heart's Memory | p. 262 |
| Index | p. 265 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
