Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Sen. Dale Bumpers
Foreword by Thomas A. Bruce / “Bringing This Fine Man Back to Light”: Life and Work of Wilson R. Bachelor
INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM D. LINDSEY / WILSON R. BACHELOR, WHYS AND WHEREFORES
1. DIARY OF WILSON R. BACHELOR (1870–1902)
2. OCCASIONAL PIECES FROM THE SCRAPBOOK OF WILSON R. BACHELOR (1890S)
3. LETTERS OF WILSON R. BACHELOR (1890S)
Afterword by Jonathan Wolfe / Medicine in the Arkansas River Valley, 1865–1890
Appendix I. Goodspeed Autobiography of Wilson R. Bachelor (1889)
Appendix II. Masonic Eulogy of Wilson R. Bachelor (1903)
Appendix III. Report of Wilson R. and Sarah Bachelor’s Golden Wedding Anniversary (1897)
Appendix IV. Letter of Wilson R. Bachelor to Zion’s Ensign (4 February 1893)
Appendix V. Genealogical Charts
Notes
Works Cited
Index