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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition (1975) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Awful History of Young Dred Drake | |
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| Letter from the South | |
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| The Lion of the West | |
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| Bear Hunting in Tennessee | |
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| A Useful Coon Skin | |
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| Crockett's Morning Hunt | |
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| The Horse Swap | |
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| The Fight | |
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| The Shooting Match | |
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| Jones' Fight | |
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| Slow Traveling by Steam | |
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| A Tennessee Door-Keeper | |
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| The Consolate Widow | |
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| Breaking a Bank | |
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| Interview with an Editor | |
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| A Swim for a Deer | |
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| Chunkey's Fight with the Panthers | |
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| A Superb Wild Horse | |
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| Bill Dean, the Texan Ranger | |
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| A Lyncher's Own Story | |
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| Honey Run | |
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| Stopping to Wood | |
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| Death of Mike Fink | |
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| Kicking a Yankee | |
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| Scenes and Characters in Arkansas | |
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| Pete Whetstone's Bear Hunt | |
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| Pete Whetstone's Last Frolic | |
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| Pete Whetstone and the Mail Boy | |
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| Dan Looney's Big Fight in Illinois | |
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| "Famus or No Famus" | |
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| Larkin Snow, the Miller | |
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| Ham Rachel, of Alabama | |
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| Parson Squint: By Skitt, Who Has Seen Him | |
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| Hardshell | |
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| The Prince of Morocco on Horseback | |
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| The Major in an Embarrassing Situation | |
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| The Major Skins the Cat | |
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| The Christmas Present in a Bag | |
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| The Coon-Hunt: or, A Fency Country | |
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| Major Jones at the Opera | |
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| Swallowing an Oyster Alive | |
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| Nettle Bottom Ball | |
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| Fun with a "Bar" | |
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| The Standing Candidate: His Excuse for Being a Bachelor | |
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| Smoking a Grizzly | |
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| A Sleep-Walking Incident | |
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| Sut Lovingood's Daddy, Acting Horse | |
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| Parson John Bullen's Lizards | |
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| Blown Up with Soda | |
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| Sicily Burns's Wedding | |
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| Mrs. Yardley's Quilting | |
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| Rare Ripe Garden-Seed | |
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| Contempt of Court - Almost | |
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| The Last Duel in Loaferville | |
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| That Big Dog Fight at Myers's | |
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| Simon Plays the "Snatch" Game | |
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| Simon Gets a "Soft Snap" out of His Daddy | |
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| Simon Speculates | |
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| Simon Fights "The Tiger" and Gets Whipped | |
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| Simon Becomes Captain | |
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| The Captain Attends a Camp-Meeting | |
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| Daddy Biggs' Scrape at Cockerell's Bend | |
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| The Bar of the South-West | |
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| Ovid Bolus, Esq., Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chancery: A Fragment | |
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| Simon Suggs, Jr., Esq. | |
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| Jo, Heyfron | |
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| The Big Bear of Arkansas | |
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| A Piano in "Arkansaw" | |
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| The Disgraced Scalp-Lock | |
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| How Mike Hooter Came Very Near "Walloping" Arch Coony | |
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| How Sally Hooter Got Snake-Bit | |
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| Lije Benadix | |
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| Rance Bore-'em | |
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| New York Drummer's Ride to Greensboro' | |
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| A Lively Village; or, Brisk Speculation in a New Commodity | |
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| Cupping on the Sternum | |
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| A Tight Race Considerin' | |
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| The Indefatigable Bear-Hunter | |
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| A Struggle for Life | |
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| The Harp of a Thousand Strings | |
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| Where the Lion Roareth and the Wang-doodle Mourneth | |
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| The Courtship of Billy Fishback, Army Straggler | |
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| Bibliography | |
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