Preface: Fame from the barrel of a gun
The clan McClaughry
The McLaurys in Iowa
War and the failed marriage
William R. McLaury
Buchanan County, Iowa
The McLaury brothers in Arizona
Will McLaury, attorney-at-law
The Arizona frontier
"My name is well known in Arizona"
Border crime
Politics of Arizona and Tombstone
"More havoc than Apaches"
The vexed question
"The grave situation on the border"
Vengeful schemes
Summer storms
Loss in Fort Worth
Deadly ambush
"Glad you are on the alert"
Open hostilities
Indian summer
"Throw up your hands"
"Hurled into eternity"
A charge of murder
"This don't bring back my dead brothers
"The cause of the murder was this"
"I do not like your letter"
"And tales of broken faith"
"I knew they were all down on you"
Habeas corpus
"They would shoot a fellow to see him fall"
"None of the results is satisfactory"
Epilogue: Three McLaury brothers.