HOME ONCE MORE, AND THEN A RETURN TO EUROPE. 1856-1857 221 Boston and New York after a long absence--With my wife I go to Paris.
MEN I MET IN PARIS. 1857 226 A ball at the Tuileries--Eugénie very gracious to me--An unexpected woman comes in--William H. Seward.
BUILDING THE ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. 1857-1858 237 Queen Maria Christina's fortune employed--Salamanca, the banker--How I secured a great loan.
A VISIT TO RUSSIA. 1857 249 I carry a message to the Grand Duke Constantine--A dinner with Colonel Greig--Moscow and the Nijnii Novgorod fair.
BUILDING THE FIRST STREET-RAILWAYS IN ENGLAND. 259 A line in Liverpool that still exists--Making a start in London--Better success in Staffordshire.
ENGLAND AND OUR CIVIL WAR--BLOCKADE RUNNING. 271 Speeches for the Union in London halls--A plan to end the war--Lincoln and Seward--Arrested for interrupting Sumner in Boston--Dining with Seward when Antietam was fought.
BUILDING THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY. 1862-1870 283 Early belief in such a project--The Crédit Mobilier and its origin--Men with whom I was associated.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FAR WEST. 1863-1870 293 Plan for a chain of great cities across the continent--The creation of Omaha--Cozzen's Hotel--Tour of the Pacific Coast.
THE SHARE I HAD IN THE FRENCH COMMUNE. 1870 301 In Marseilles I help to organize the "Ligue du Midi" of the Commune or "Red Republic"--Attacked by soldiers and almost shot--Imprisoned and poisoned--Deported by Gambetta.
A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. 1872 314 "Train Villa" at Newport--Independent candidate for the presidency against Grant and Greeley--A tour of the country, in which I address hundreds of thousands.
DECLARED A LUNATIC. 1872-1873 323 I defend Mrs. Woodhull--Arrested and imprisoned for quoting Scripture--Fifteenth imprisonment without a crime.
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY, SIXTY-SEVEN, AND SIXTY DAYS. 1870, 1890, 1892 331 The tour that Jules Verne used as the basis of his famous story--In '90 I circle the globe in 67 days; and in '92 in 60 days.
Portrait of Citizen Train made recently _Frontispiece_
Portrait of Citizen Train's grandfather, the Rev. George Pickering 2
Portrait of Mrs. George Francis Train 110
Citizen Train in the Mills Hotel dictating his Reminiscences 200