Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, pages 327-333; v. 2, p. 364-370) and index.

Vol. 1. The old river, frontier to secession -- v. 2. The new river, Civil War to TVA. Volume 1. The old river: frontier to secession. Two rivers in one ; First comers ; The river of the Cherokees ; Myths and games of the Cherokees ; The Carolina traders and their empire ; The brilliant idea of a Scottish baronet ; Captain Demeré builds Fort Loudoun ; The siege and fall of Fort Loudoun ; Stuart's escape and Timberlake's mission ; Rally in the canebrake ; The voyage of the good boat Adventure ; John Sevier and the lost state of Franklin ; Dragging Canoe blockades the river ; Flatboat and keelboat days ; Boatmen and outlaws on the Natchez Trace ; Early steamboat days ; The Indians go West ; The first attack on Muscle Shoals and the Suck ; How it was in the old days ; Secession -- volume 2. The new river: Civil War to TVA. Amphibious warfare: Paducah to Fort Henry ; The battle of Shiloh ; The strategic importance of Muscle Shoals ; Chickamauga and its sequel ; Guerrillas versus gunboats ; Forrest wreaks havoc among the gunboats ; The cost of civil war ; Parson Brownlow and the Ku Klux Klan ; Kingdom in coming ; The last great days of the steamboats ; The uneasy reign of King Kilowatt I ; Trials by jury and otherwise ; At last! The kingdom really comes! ; The TVA makes a new river ; The workings of TVA ; Navigation, new style ; Green lands and great waters ; The battles of TVA ; Journal of a voyage from Chattanooga to Paducah on the good steamboat Gordon C. Greene.