Contents

• Indian creek (1890-1892)
• Catharine Ann Skaggs Porter (1892)
• The fiery furnace (Autumn 1892-Autumn 1902)
• Adolescence (Autumn 1902-Spring 1906)
• Marriage (Spring 1906-February 1914)
• The wild dash for Texas (February 1914-May 1918)
• Apocalypse in Denver (May 1918-October 1919)
• Greenwich Village (October 1919-October 1920)
• Revolutionary Mexico (October-December 1920)
• Adventure and betrayal in Mexico (January-August 1921)
• Mexican bounty: the end of an apprenticeship (August 1921- September 1923)
• Friends and lovers in New York and Connecticut (September 1923-April 1927)
• Boston and Salem: witch-hunts and ancestors (April 1927-August 1928)
• Escape to Bermuda (August 1928-Spring 1930)
• Relinquishing Mexico (Spring 1930-August 1931)
• The German interval (August 1931-January 1932)
• Paris, Madrid, Basel (February-December 1932)
• Paris (December 1932-January 1936)
• Going home (January 1936-April 1938)
• Transition from marriage to independence (April 1938- December 1941)
• "Ah, the house…the house" (January 1941-August 1942)
• South hill and Washington, D.C. (August 1942-January 1945)
• California (January 1945- September 1949)
• New York City and France: the end of something (September 1949-September 1952)
• Michigan and Belgium (September 1952-February 1955)
• Ship of fools: the end of a long voyage (February 1955-September 1961)
• Success and failure in the aftermath of a novel (September 1961-December 1966)
• Spring Valley and College Park (January 1967-December 1971)
• Return to Texas (January 1972-May 1976)
• The last candles (May 1976-September 1980)