Foreword / Tom Slayton --
Part I. Fur, fins and feathers --
The Mount Holly mammoth and Charlotte Whale --
Marching turkeys to market --
Did the catamount return? --
Part II. Singular characters and surprising events --
Wilderness, massacre and cannibalism --
The oversized confidence of Ethan Allen --
Was Vermont ever a republic? --
The pond that ran away --
Hiking, before hiking was a thing --
Part III. Scams, shams and strange stories --
"The spiritual capital of the universe" --
Channeling Charles Dickens --
Charity in "the year without a summer" --
The varying accounts of sleeping Lucy --
Counting on water cures --
Our Canadian President? --
An island for the famous --
Part IV. Personal struggle and social activism --
Ann Story: resolution in revolution --
A black preacher's rise to prominence --
Vermont's first strike --
Furor over John Brown's body --
Anarchists vs. socialists. A fight to the death --
Silas Griffith's Christmas gifts --
Women's battle for the ballot --
Squaring off over McCarthyism --
Part V. Riding waves of change --
Arrival of cars spells doom for some --
Missing the chance to give women the vote --
The horror of the Spanish influenza --
Seeking the good life in Vermont --
They saw gold in white slopes --
The beginning of the end for small dairy farms --