Mrs. Dred Scott: a life on slavery's frontier

Wife of a celebrity

1835 : arriving on the frontier

Settling in

Entertaining guests at the Indian Agency

Late summer harvest

Wintering over at St. Peter's Agency

Winters deep

1836 : spring and the change of the guard

Celestial explorers

Call of the wood as a prelude to treaty

1837 : treaty made before her eyes

Marriage : together alone

Traveling the length of the river

New baby in a new land

Deteriorating community

Battles and baptisms

Taliaferro's last stand

Leaving Minnesota and its new tribunals

While the doctor was away : St. Louis, 1840-43

House of Chouteau

Black social life of St. Louis

Doctor returns

1843 Interlude : Jefferson barracks between wars of national expansion

Dred with the army of observation and Harriet with the children in St. Louis

Courthouse and the jail

Other matters at the courthouse

Filing suit again

1849 : trial by pestilence, trial by fire

Declared free

Missouri changes its course

Before the high court

Aftermath and epilogue.