Chapter I. The Dark Before the Dawn.--The French period reluctantly passed over; Chicago reappears in 1778, after 100 years of oblivion; J. B. Pointe de Saible; 53:--Various spellings of Chicago; meaning of the word; 54:--Treaty of 1795; building of the "Old Kinzie House" in 1778; 55:--Who was here then? Astor fortunes; 56:--50,000 square miles of solitude; Gurdon Hubbard's observations in 1816; Ouillemette, now Wilmette; Gen. Dearborn orders the fort built; 57:--John Whistler's company of the First Infantry comes in 1804 and builds it; John Whistler; 58:--The schooner Tracy arrives, the "big canoe with wings;" the account given, in 1875, by Mrs. Whistler; the pioneer, John Kinzie, arrives in 1804; 60:--State of things for the next eight years; 61:--Charles Jouett; 62:--Joe Battles and Alexander Robinson; the Indians and Indian traders; whisky; Munsell's History of Chicago; 63. Chapter II. Building of the First Fort Dearborn.--William Wells is here in 1803; 65:--Signs an Indian trader's license as Governor Harrison's agent; Captain Anderson comes down from "Mill-wack-ie" in 1804; what the fort was like; 66:--Agency House; 67:--How the Chicagoans passed their time; War Department records of Fort Dearborn, furnished in 1881 by Secretary-of-War Lincoln to John Wentworth; 68:--In 1811 Captain Nathan Heald marries Rebekah Wells; wild wedding journey; 69:--Gay winter for the bride; John Kinzie kills John Lalime in self-defence; 70:--Double murder by Indians at Lee's place (Hardscrabble), on the South Branch; 71:--Graphic narrative in Wau-Bun; 72:--Man and boy escape and spread the alarm; 74:--Captain Heald tells the story; Indian traits; 75. Chapter III. English and Indian Savages.--Capt. Heald is inclined to charge the Hardscrabble massacre to the Winnebagoes; British alliance with Indians characterized; 77:--Its unsoldierly results; ruin of brave General Hull; 78:--Shame to Lord Liverpool's government; "Suppose Russia should instigate a Sepoy rebellion;" wild alarm follows the Lee murders, 79:--Munsell's history of it; war declared; 80:--Hull sends Winnemeg with orders to Heald to evacuate Fort Dearborn and fall back on Detroit, Mackinaw had already been taken; wording of Hull's order differently given by Captain Heald and Mrs. Helm; 81:--The latter finds fault with the former; alleges want of harmony in the fort; 82:--Mrs. Heald denies this, alleging that Ronan thought highly of his captain; the stammering soldier; 83:--comparative authenticity of the two narratives; how the Heald story comes to be told now for the first time; 84.