Introduction: celebrating the American dog -- Part 1. Working dogs --
Heroes of fire and water I: "Sport," the Newark fire dog (1881) --
Heroes of fire and water II: "Gunner," the children's rescuer (1881) --
The cow-boys and the dogs, in the War of the Revolution (1865) --
The faithful American dog (1798) --
Sagacity of a dog (1831) --
A canine anecdote (1861) / C.J. Atkinson --
Pershing honors dog mascot of A.E.F. (1921) --
Another dog (1895) / F. Hopkinson Smith --
Craig, an appreciation (1916) / C.A.D. --
A pleasant instance of the sagacity of a dog (1781) / "Abraham Weatherwise" --
The shepherd's dog (1845) / J.S. Skinner --
When eyes were no use (1920) / Albert Payson Terhune --
The bar sinister (1902) / Richard Harding Davis --
That spot (1908) / Jack London --
The setter, an aristocrat among dogs (1920) / Robert S. Lemmon --
Memoir of a celebrated setter dog (1831) --
Dog knew a sportsman (1906) --
That first bird dog (1913) / Fred O. Copeland --
A lesson in faithfulness (1919) / A.A. Hutton --
A Walt Whitman grouse (1916) / Archibald Rutledge --
(1897) / Ed. W. Sandys --
Mac: the story of a dog of honor (1920) / Travers D. Carman --
Some dogs that I have owned (1901) / W.C. Clarke --
Do dogs dream? (1882) / C.B.A. --
The working Airedale in Colorado (1910) / B.F. Simonds --
About a setter dog (1902) / B.L.S. --
Part 3. Poetry about dogs --
Epitaph about dogs (1773) --
A dog (1934) / Edgar A. Guest --
Dan (1921) / Carl Sandburg --
The fate of an innocent dog (1845) / George Moses Horton --
What shall I do, it whimpers so (ca. 1861) / Emily Dickinson --
Elegy on the death of Fidelio, a dog who possessed more merits than the poet has deigned to ascribe to him (1795) / "Zeda" --
Tumbler's epitaph (ca. 1840) --
An untitled poem about Sailor (1845) / J.S. Skinner --
The dog star pup (1920) / Henry Herbert Knibbs --
My dog (1918) / F.C. McCarthy --
To my dog, "Quien Sabe," (in the happy hunting grounds) (1920) / Henry Herbert Knibbs --
Sonnet for my dog (ca. 1939) / Thomas Curtis Clark --
My dog (1897) / Clarence Hawkes --
The good, true dog (1913) / C.A. Fonerden --
To a dog's memory (1889) / Louise Imogen Guiney --
Part 4. Companion dogs --
The animal mind (1913) / John Burroughs --
From The history of New England from 1630 to 1649 (1644) / John Winthrop --
From the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1805) / Meriwether Lewis --
Testimony of James Smith, field hand, enslaved in Virginia and Georgia: interviewed by Henry Bibb (1852) --
A yellow dog: a California story (1895) / Bret Harte --
A dog's ghost: a story from the Tobique River, New Brunswick (1892) / "Geoff" --
Memoirs of a yellow dog (1906) / O. Henry --
A dog's story (1898) / H.A. Freeman --
From "Our dogs" (1867) / Harriet Beecher Stowe --
My dog (a hamlet in Old Hampshire) (1901) / Anna Lea Merritt --
Thoughts on dogs (1793) / William Livingston --
In praise of Mops (1892) --
Dogs (1903) / Catharine Maria Sedgwick --
The fidelity of a dog (1903) / Cy Warman --
One minute longer (1919) / Albert Payson Terhune --
The education of Sam (1900) / Charles Dudley Warner --
The reform of Shaun (1903) / Allen French --
Where is my dog, or, Is man alone immortal? (1892) / the Revered Charles Josiah Adams --
Gulliver the great (1912) / Walter A. Dyer --
Coda: all the good dogs (1954) / George and Helen Papashvily