Chapter I - The River and its History
Chapter II - The River and Its Explorers
Chapter III - Frescoes from the Past
Chapter IV - The Boys' Ambition
Chapter V - I Want to Be a Cub-pilot
Chapter VI - A Cub Pilot's Experience
Chapter VIII - Perplexing Lessons
Chapter IX - Continued Perplexities
Chapter X - Completing My Education
Chapter XIII - A Pilot's Needs
Chapter XIV - Rank and Dignity of Piloting
Chapter XV - The Pilots' Monopoly
Chapter XVII - Cut-offs and Stephen
Chapter XVIII - I Take a Few Extra Lessons
Chapter XIX - Brown and I Exchange Compliments
Chapter XXI - A Section in My Biography
Chapter XXII - I Return to My Muttons
Chapter XXIII - Traveling Incognito
Chapter XXIV - My Incognito Is Exploded
Chapter XXV - From Cairo to Hickman
Chapter XXVII - Some Imported Articles
Chapter XXVIII - Uncle Mumford Unloads
Chapter XXIX - A Few Specimen Bricks
Chapter XXX - Sketches by the Way
Chapter XXXI - A Thumb-print and What Came of It
Chapter XXXII - The Disposal of a Bandana
Chapter XXXIII - Refreshments and Ethics
Chapter XXXV - Vicksburg During the Trouble
Chapter XXXVI - The Professor's Yarn
Chapter XXXVII - The End of the "Gold Dust"
Chapter XXXVIII - The House Beautiful
Chapter XXXIX - Manufactures and Miscreants
Chapter XL - Castles and Culture
Chapter XLI - The Metropolis of the South
Chapter XLII - Hygiene and Sentiment
Chapter XLIII - The Art of Inhumation
Chapter XLVI - Enchantments and Enchanters
Chapter XLVII - Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable
Chapter XLVIII - Sugar and Postage
Chapter XLVIX - Episodes in Pilot Life
Chapter L - The "Original Jacobs"
Chapter LIII - My Boyhood's Home
Chapter LIV - Past and Present
Chapter LV - A Vendetta and Other Things
Chapter LVI - A Question of Law
Chapter LVIII - On the Upper River
Chapter LIX - Legends and Scenery
Chapter LX - Speculations and Conclusions