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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
PART ONE: THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH
Prologue: How a Man Is Made
1. TWO TAN EGGS
2. LETTER FROM SAMUEL GATEWOOD
3. LOW DOG DREAMING
4. A BIG PLUM
5. INDEPENDENCE DAY
6. A HINCTY NIGGER
7. THE ATLANTIC, MISSISSIPPI & OHIO
8. ADDRESS FROM THE COLORED CITIZENS OF VIRGINIA TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
9. THE COCINERO
10. LETTER FROM MRS. DUNCAN GATEWOOD TO MRS. SAMUEL GATEWOOD
11. COURT DAY
12. RAINY DAY STEW
13. THE LOYAL LEAGUE
14. SON-OF-A-BITCH STEW
15. AN OPIUM EATER
16. WHAT RAVEN SAW
17. DISPATCH FROM COLONEL HENRY CARRINGTON
18. LETTER FROM EDWARD RATCLIFF TO JESSE BURNS
19. A FORMER LOVER
20. THE SUPPLICANT
21. MILITARY DISTRICT #1
22. INCIDENT ON THE RICHMOND & DANVILLE RAILROAD
23. TERRAPIN À LA DELMONICO
24. IN THE HAYFIELD
PART TWO: THE ATLANTIC, MISSISSIPPI & OHIO RAILROAD
25. A PHILADELPHIA SANITARIUM
26. LETTER FROM JESSE BURNS TO EDWARD RATCLIFF
27. LETTER FROM THOMAS BYRD TO SAMUEL GATEWOOD
28. THE IRONCLAD OATH
29. KI YA MANI YO
30. MENU FOR A BANQUET HONORING MR. CHARLES DICKENS
31. LETTER FROM EBEN BARNWELL TO MISS PAULINE BYRD
32. IMPEACHMENT
33. A HAPPY OCCASION
34. CIRCLING THE KETTLE
35. LETTER FROM MRS. EBEN BARNWELL TO MISS MOLLY SEMPLE
36. A SQUAW MAN
37. MR. STUART ARGUES FOR COMPROMISE
38. LETTER FROM THOMAS BYRD TO SAMUEL GATEWOOD
39. THE CANDIDATE FROM MARSHALL WARD
40. GHOST-OWNING
41. GENERAL MAHONE’S SIGNAL VICTORY
42. IMMIGRANTS
43. BLACK FRIDAY
44. WASHITU STRAWBERRIES
PART THREE: IN THE VALLEY OF THE GREASY GRASS
45. LIGHT BROTH AND A CODDLED EGG
46. IN THE TERRITORY
47. A TREASURE TROVE
48. A CADAVER
49. RATION DAY
50. ON THE SCOOT
51. PANIC
52. MRS. S. T. GATEWOOD’S BOARDINGHOUSE BRUNSWICK STEW
53. OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE
54. THE BONE GAME
55. IN THE MOON OF RIPENING BLACKBERRIES
56. HOKA HEY
57. LETTER FROM RANDOLPH HOWLAND TO MRS. EBEN BARNWELL
58. ORDERS TO GENERAL GEORGE CUSTER, JUNE 22, 1876
59. KILL SONGS
60. AMERICA’S TEMPERANCE DRINK
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
More praise for Canaan
Praise for Jacob’s Ladder
Copyright
Also by Donald McCaig
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