| Chapter. | Page. |
| I. | My Boyhood Days | 13 |
| II. | My Introduction to the late war | 20 |
| III. | My First Lesson in Cow Punching | 31 |
| IV. | My second experience in St. Louis | 43 |
| V. | A New experience | 53 |
| VI. | Adopted and sent to school | 61 |
| VII. | Back at last to the Lone Star State | 68 |
| VIII. | Learning to rope wild steers | 75 |
| IX. | Owning my first cattle | 84 |
| X. | A start up the Chisholm trail | 95 |
| XI. | Buys a boat and becomes a sailor | 103 |
| XII. | Back to my favorite occupation, that of a wild and woolly Cow Boy | 112 |
| XIII. | Mother and I meet at last | 119 |
| XIV. | On a tare in Wichita, Kansas | 129 |
| XV. | A lonely trip down the Cimeron | 141 |
| XVI. | My first experience roping a Buffalo | 150 |
| XVII. | An exciting trip after thieves | 158 |
| XVIII. | Seven weeks among Indians | 164 |
| XIX. | A lonely ride of eleven hundred miles | 176 |
| XX. | Another start up the Chisholm trail | 186 |
| XXI. | A trip which terminated in the capture of "Billy the Kid" | 196 |
| XXII. | Billy the Kid's capture | 215 |
| XXIII. | A trip to the Rio Grande on a mule | 223 |
| XXIV. | Waylaid by unknown parties | 231 |
| XXV. | Lost on the Staked Plains | 239 |
| XXVI. | A trip down the Reo Pecos | 255 |
| XXVII. | A true sketch of "Billy the Kid's" life | 269 |
| XXVIII. | Wrestling with a dose of Small Pox on the Llano Esticado | 285 |
| XXIX. | In love with a Mexican girl | 299 |
| XXX. | A sudden leap from Cow Boy to Merchant | 309 |
