Includes index.

The Cradle of the Kennebec -- The River -- Kennebec Weather -- Red Clay -- Good Eating Begins in Maine -- The Dawn People -- The First Families of the Kennebec -- "An Up-and-Coming Lot" -- A Century of Agony and Fire -- Gifts of the Red Gods -- A Man of Principle -- Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec -- Aaron Burr Loved a Queen -- The Navel Battle on the River -- Cap'n Bibber's "Constitution" Lecture -- The River that Flowed over the World -- King Log -- Kennebec Crystals -- Uncle Tom and Tristram -- Yankees from the Province of Quebec -- A Paradise for Fish -- Whistling Wings -- Cap'n Bibber's Coot -- Folk on the Farm -- A Patchwork Quilt -- The Kennebec Phantom -- Cap'n Bibber Philosophizes -- The River of the Future -- Acknowledgment -- Index