CONTENTS 

 BOOK ONE (1851-1879) 



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CHAPTER ONE i 



1. Puritan ancestry John Jordan Rufus 

 Jordan Hiram Jordan Huldah Hawley 

 Jordan John Elderkin Waldo 



2. "Going West" The Jordan farm A glacial 

 pond Cranberry pond Rufus Bacon Jordan 



"The Human Harvest" Mary Jordan 

 Edwards 



3. Birthplace East Coy Creek Gainesville 

 Early recollections Quilting bees The old 

 clock Playing soldier A long drive No 

 whipping To Rochester A tragedy of pride 



Overpowering fear Timidity and mystery 



CHAPTER Two 19 



1. Learning to study "Speaking pieces" The 

 Red Eric "False color sense" Tendency in- 

 herited Mapping the stars Mapping the 

 world Other reverberations Eric's shells 

 Barbara's birds 



2. Turning to Botany Flowers of spring In- 

 terest in flowers and trees Portage and Sil- 

 ver Lake Difference in floras Painting the 

 flowers No songbird 



3. Dickens Thackeray Bret Harte Macau- 

 lay and the poets The Atlantic Monthly 

 Introduction to politics Abolition versus 

 Union Greeley and the Tribune Harper's 

 Ferry and Sumter Emancipation The call 

 for men War poets Death of Lincoln 



4. Castile Academy The Female Seminary 

 The study of French John Lord Jenkins 

 Gainesville Zouaves Learning chess A 

 broken nose In South Warsaw Coasting 



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