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CONTENTS.

• Preface, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
• A KANSAS HELL.
• CHAPTER.
• I.-My Initiation and Crime, . . . . . . . . . . 13
• II.-The Coal Mines, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
• III.-The Coal Mines, Continued, . . . . . . . . 59
• IV.-The Punishments of the Prison, . . . . . . 90
• V-Sunday in the Prison, . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
• VI.-Scenes in the Hospital, . . . . . . . . . . 106
• VII-Escapes from Prison, . . . . . . . . . . . 115
• VIII.-The Prisoners, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
• IX.-Forty-eight Hours in Hell, . . . . . . . . 197
• X.-Stolen Horses, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
• XI.-Candidate for the State Senate, . . . . . . 215
• XII.-A Dark Hour, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
• XIII.-Freedom, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
• A MISSOURI HELL.
• XIV.-The Convict's Home, . . . . . . . . . . . 237
• XV.-The Work of the Convict, . . . . . . . . . 253
• XVI.-The Missouri Prisoners, . . . . . . . . . 262
• XVII.-The Missouri Prisoners, Continued, . . . 277
• XVIII.-Prison Discipline, . . . . . . . . . . . 289
• XIX.-Noted Convicts, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
• XX.-The Ex-Convict, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322