Introduction: "Will it come to anything?": the story of Pioneer Girl / Pamela Smith Hill

The Pioneer Girl manuscripts / Pamela Smith Hill

Editorial procedures / Nancy Tystad Koupal & Rodger Hartley

Pioneer Girl : Kansas and Missouri, 1869-1871 ; Wisconsin, 1871-1874 ; Minnesota, 1874-1876 ; Iowa, 1876-1877 ; Minnesota, 1877-1879 ; Dakota Territory, 1879-1880 ; Dakota Territory, the hard winter of 1880-1881 ; Dakota Territory, 1880-1885 ; Dakota Territory, 1881-1888

Conclusion: "I don't suppose anyone will take the trouble" / Pamela Smith Hill

Appendixes : Facsimile of "Juvenile Pioneer Girl" ; The Benders of Kansas ; The Gordon party ; The singing school.