Part one: Afloat. Loveless marriage
A wild and mischievous boy
"A ragged and dirty bunch"
"Heaven on the half shell"
"Land of indolence and dreams"
"Grave of a blood relation"
"My honored 'sister'" ; Wedding present
Part two: Floodtide. Church of the holy speculators
Mississippi steamboat and a cuckoo clock
Chartering a comet to Mars
"Invertebrate without a country"
"Inspired bugger of a machine"
"A sound heart & a deformed conscience"
Reparation due to every Black man
"No pockets in the armor"
"One of the Vanderbilt gang"
Part three: Rapids. "Paradise of the rheumatics"
"Boss machine of the world"
"Too much of a human being"
"'Colossal' is a tame word for him"
"Circumnavigation of this great globe"
"A book written in blood & tears"
"Stirring times in Austria"
"A hundred capering clowns"
Part four: Whirlpool. "The ancient mariner"
"The United States of lyncherdom"
"Magnificent panorama of the Mississippi"
"Spirit of a steam engine"
The dread cavalcade of death
"An artist in morals and ink"
Part five: Shipwreck. Man in the white clothes
"A real American college boy" ; "All the wonders that are occurring"
A holiday from life's woes
"An old bird of paradise"
