I The Subject Matter 15
II The Man 26
III Kansas—a Crisis in Our National History 55
IV His Public Services 72
V Robbery and Murder on the Pottawatomie 95
VI Black Jack 135
VII Osawatomie 154
VIII Hypocrisy 181
IX A Soldier of Fortune 223
X The Provisional Government 243
XI The Shubel Morgan Plunder Company 259
XII Mobilizing the Provisional Army 283
XIII The Fiasco 296
XIV A Perversion of History 323
XV His Great Adventure 341
XVI A Soldier of the Cross 364
XVII "Yet Shall He Live" 395
APPENDICES
I Correspondence With the Late D. W.
Wilder Concerning John Brown 411
II Recollections of John Brown at Harper's
Ferry by Alexander Boteler, a Virginian
Who Witnessed the Fight 414
III Constitution and Ordinance for the People
Of the United States 417
IV John Brown's Autobiography 431