The Egypt of the West / Abraham Lincoln -- The Middle West / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Addik Kum Maig ; Mon-daw-min / Henry Rowe Schoolcraft -- Christian-County mosquitoes / Eugene Field -- The blue duck / Lew Sarett -- The black duck dinner / James Floyd Stevens -- How to tell corn fairies if you see 'em / Carl Sandburg -- Shanty-boy on the Big Eau Claire -- The banks of the Little Eau Pleine / Franz Rickaby, compiler -- The return of Johnny Appleseed / Charles Allen Smart.

Biography of Blackbird / Alphonso Wetmore -- Payton Skah / William Joseph Snelling -- Pontiac's siege / Arthur Pound -- The Windigo / Mary Hartwell Catherwood -- Saukanuk / James M. Phalen -- Buffalo / Louis Hennepin -- The Fox-Wisconsin route / Jonathan Carver -- Indian attack on Michilimackinac / Alexander Henry -- Mamelle Prairie / Edmund Flagg -- The red pipestone quarry / George Catlin -- Early river travel / Timothy Flint -- Travel in the woods / Baynard Rush Hall -- A legend of Carondelet / James Hall -- A buffalo and elk hunt / Henry Hastings Sibley -- Ball at Thram's Huddle / Caroline Kirkland -- Little preacher from down East / Peter Cartwright -- The standing candidate / John S. Robb -- Spelling down the master / Edward Eggleston -- Zury chooses a wife / Joseph Kirkland -- I become Cow Vandemark / Herbert Quick -- Toward the sunset / Ole Edvart Rolvagg.

The drive / Stewart Edward White -- The Peshtigo fire / Stewart Hall Holbrook -- A boyhood in the bush / Thomas J. LeBlanc -- Five peas on a barrel-head / Lew Sarett -- My winter in the woods / Glanville Smith -- Mrs. Hill and Mrs. Troost / Alice Cary -- Growing up with the country / Stanley Waterloo -- Under the lion's paw / Hamlin Garland -- A start in life / Ruth Suckow -- Color in the wheat / Hamlin Garland -- Buck in the bottoms / August Derleth -- The proud farmer / Vachel Lindsay -- The Judas goose / Winifred Van Etten -- The movers ; Inquiry / James Hearst -- One book : the almanac / Della Lutes -- Belling a fox / Charles D. Stewart -- The last of the boatmen / Morgan Neville -- Putting a black-leg on shore / Benjamin Drake -- Keelboat life / Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- Jim Bludso, of the Prairie Belle / John Hay -- The "fashionable tour : on the Upper Mississippi / Theodore C. Blegen -- Old times on the Missouri / Charles D. Stewart -- River town / Marquis W. Childs.

Main Street / Sinclair Lewis -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- The district school / Clarence Darrow -- Young poet in Davenport / Floyd Dell -- Haircut / Ring Lardner -- An Iowa childhood / Edna Ferber -- Vikings use their heads / Skulda V. Baner -- Old St. Louis / Jessie Benton Fremont -- The dandy / Thomas Peirce -- Major Amberson's town / Booth Tarkington -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg -- Effie Whittlesy ; A fable in slang / George Ade -- The auctioneer's wife / Ben Hecht -- Mr. Dooley on home life / Finley Peter Dunne -- Young architect in Chicago / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Precinct captain / James T. Farrell -- The mills / Joseph Husband -- The chute / Albert Halper -- Fiesta in St. Paul / Grace Flandrau -- F.O.B. Detroit / Wessel Smitter.

Story of an early courtship / Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- Lucinda Matlock ; Fiddler Jones / Edgar Lee Masters -- A plain man / Edgar Watson Howe -- "Tradin' Joe" / James Whitcomb Riley -- Mr. And Mrs. Babbitt / Sinclair Lewis -- Modern Gothic / Vincent Sheean -- Mary White / William Allen White -- The Mayos at work / Helen Clapesattle -- The bitter drink ; Tin Lizzie / John Dos Passos -- Progress in the northwest / William D. Gallagher -- Making a home / Logan Esarey -- Iowa / Ruth Suckow -- Nebraska / Willa Cather -- Kansas / Carl Becker -- Sheep country / Archer B. Gilfillan -- Revolt against the city / Grant Wood -- Dusk over Wisconsin / August Derleth -- Lincoln / Henry A. Wallace -- America remembers / Paul Engle.