The Homesteader: A Novel

CONTENTS

	EPOCH THE FIRST
CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Agnes	13
II	The Homesteader	21
III	At the Sod House	28
IV	She Could Never Be Anything to Him	37
V	When the Indians Shot the Town Up	43
VI	The Infidel, A Jew and A German	49
VII	The Day Before	56
VIII	An Enterprising Young Man	61
IX	"Christine! Christine!"	75
X	"You Have Never Been This Way Before"	80
XI	What Jean Baptiste Found in the Well	85
XII	Miss Stewart Receives a Caller	89
XIII	The Coming of the Railroad	97
XIV	The Administrating Angel	107
XV	Oh, My Jean	115
XVI	"Bill" Prescott Proposes	123
XVII	Harvest Time and What Came with It	131

	EPOCH THE SECOND

I	Regarding the Intermarriage of Races	143
II	Which?	153
III	Memories—N. Justine McCarthy	159
IV	Orlean	174
V	A Proposal: A Proposition; A Certain Mrs. Pruitt—And a Letter	186
VI	The Prairie Fire	190
VII	Vanity	196
VIII	Married	207
IX	Orlean Receives a Letter and Advice	212
X	Eugene Crook	221
XI	Reverend McCarthy Pays a Visit	227
XII	Reverend McCarthy Decides to Set Baptiste Right, But—	234
XIII	The Wolf	240
XIV	The Contest	247
XV	Compromised	252
XVI	The Evil Genius	259
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