Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Becoming American
Chapter 2: Tumultuous territorial government
Chapter 3: The land of promise
Chapter 4: New beginnings
Chapter 5: War on the frontier
Chapter 6: Twentieth star on the American flag
Chapter 7: Land and labor
Chapter 8: An agricultural economy
Chapter 9: Dying (and living) in early Mississippi
Chapter 10: Nurturing mind and spirit
Chapter 11: Travel, trade, and urban centers
Chapter 12: The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index.