Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part One: Hardscrabble
1. The Judgment of Heaven on a Country
2. Le Grand Détour
3. Mortgages, Press Books, and Office Boys
4. Mr. Chief Justice and a Man Named Lincoln
Part Two: They'd as Soon Fight the Devil as to Fight Kansas Men
5. A World Was Watching
6. Ewing's Light Artillery
7. Exterminate Them, Root and Branch
8. The Visible Interposition of God
9. Thermopylae of the West
Part Three: The Politics of Money
10. Dr. Mudd's Trial and Widow Adie's Cotton
11. The Gathering of Evil Birds
12. The Crédit Mobilier and “His Fraudulency”
13. Sweaty Old Coins and Last Hurrahs
Bibliography
Index