Recollections of a Busy Life: Including Reminiscences of American Politics and Politicians, from the Opening of the Missouri Contest to the Downfall of Slavery; to Which are Added Miscellanies: 'Literature as a Vocation,' 'Poets and Poetry,' 'Reforms and…

xv, 624 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. CONTENTS: A Sample of the Scotch-Irish; Our Folks at Londonderry; 'The Times That Tried Men's Souls'; Rural New England Fifty Years Ago; My Early School-Days; Adieu to New Hampshire; Westhaven; My Apprenticeship; My Faith; A Year by Lake Erie; My First Experiences in New York; Getting into Business; Temperance in All Things; Politics; Play-Days; Triumph; Log-Cabin Days; The Tribune; Socialism; Socialistic Efforts; Harry Clay; Margaret Fuller; Beggars and Borrowers; Dramatic Memories; 'Old Zack'; Congress - Mileage; Congress as It Was; Glamour; Lake Superior, Mining, Chicago, The Prairies; The Great Senators, The Compromise of 1850; Libels and Libel-Suits; Europe, The World's Exposition; The Dissolution of the Whig Party; The Slavery Controversy; The New Era in Politics; My Farm; My Farming; 'Seward, Weed, and Greeley'; Europe Revisited, Paris, Switzerland; Two Days in Jail; 'The Banks Congress', The Long Contest for Speaker; Fremont, Buchanan, Douglas; A Ride Across the Plains; The Rocky Mountains, The Great Basin; Utah, Nevada; The Sierra Nevada, The Yosemite, The Big Trees; The Future of California; The Presidential Election of 1860; Secession, How Confronted; Our Civil War, Actual and Possible; Abraham Lincoln; Jefferson Davis; Authorship, Writing History; My Dead; Literature as a Vocation; Poets and Poetry; Reforms and Reformers; The Grounds of Protection; Sundry Lecturing Reminiscences: A Day's Ride in Maine, A Ride Across the Alleghanies, A Night-Ride Across the Prairies, A Winter Flood in Illinois; Marriage and Divorce: A Discussion Between Horace Greeley and Robert Dale Owen; Analytical Index.