Are we equal? are we kidding? -- Water bird and a sparrow -- Reconstruction means rebuilding -- Who was Andrew Johnson? -- Presidential reconstruction -- Slavery and states' rights -- Congressional reconstruction -- Thaddeus Stevens, radical -- Impeaching a president -- Welcome to Meeting Street -- Southern girl's diary -- Failed revolution -- Meanwhile, out west -- Riding the trail -- Rails across the country -- Taking the train -- Fencing the homestead -- Conscience, conservationism, and courage, all in one man -- On the lone prairie -- Reaping a harvest -- Trail ends on a reservation -- Pitiful Last becomes a winner -- People of the pierced noses -- Route of the Nez Perce, 1877 -- Villain, a dreamer, a cartoonist -- Phineas Taylor Barnum -- Huck, Tom, and friends -- Immigrants speak -- Hurrah for America, my free country -- More about immigrants -- Strange case of the Chinese laundry -- Going to court -- Tea in Wyoming -- Are you a citizen if you can't vote? -- Law and the ladies -- Mary in the promised land -- One hundred candles -- How were things in 1876? -- Wizard of electricity -- Jim Crow, what a fool! -- Ida B. Wells -- Lynching means killing by a mob -- Man and his times -- Man ahead of his times -- End words -- Chronology of events.