Prologue ix
Part One Beginnings
1 Overland Journey
3(11)
2 The Girls from Auburn
14(14)
3 "A funny, scraggly place"
28(7)
4 "Refined, intelligent gentlewomen"
35(10)
Part Two Old World and New
5 Unfenced
45(8)
6 The Grand Tour
53(18)
7 Ferry's Scheme
71(8)
8 Departure
79(10)
9 Hell Hill
89(18)
Part Three Working Girls
10 Turnips and Tears
107(17)
11 The Mad Ladies of Strawberry Park
124(10)
12 Debut
134(15)
Part Four Reckonings
13 The Cream of Routt County
149(13)
14 "Unarmed and defenseless"
162(10)
15 "The dark days are very few"
172(15)
16 Three-Wire Winter
187(18)
17 Commencement
205(10)
Epilogue 215(12)
Acknowledgments 227(8)
Notes 235(26)
Bibliography 261(14)
Index 275