| | Prologue: John Muir and the Gospel of Glaciers | p. 1 |
| | Odyssey of the Snowy Owl | p. 23 |
| | Theodore Roosevelt's Conservation Doctrine | p. 38 |
| | The Pinchot-Ballinger Feud | p. 67 |
| | Bull Moose Crusade | p. 95 |
| | Charles Sheldon's Fierce Fight | p. 121 |
| | Our Vanishing Wildlife | p. 149 |
| | The New Wilderness Generation | p. 203 |
| | Warren G. Harding: Backlash | p. 217 |
| | Bob Marshall and the Gates of the Arctic | p. 231 |
| | William O. Douglas and New Deal Conservation | p. 302 |
| | Ansel Adams, Wonder Lake, and the Lady Bush Pilots | p. 323 |
| | The Arctic Range and Aldo Leopold | p. 357 |
| | The Lake Clark Pact | p. 163 |
| | Those Amazing Muries | p. 263 |
| | Will the Wolf Survive? | p. 285 |
| | Pribilof Seals, Walt Disney, and the Arctic Wolves of Lois Crisler | p. 342 |
| | Resurrection Bay of Rockwell Kent | p. 184 |
| | The Sheenjek Expedition of 1956 | p. 373 |
| | Dharma Wilderness | p. 387 |
| | Of Hoboes, Barefooters, and the Open Road | p. 410 |
| | Sea Otter Jones and Musk-Ox Matthiessen | p. 426 |
| | Rachel Carson's Alarm | p. 444 |
| | Selling the Arctic Refuge | p. 453 |
| | Epilogue: Arctic Forever | p. 479 |
| | Acknowledgments | p. 503 |
| | Notes | p. 509 |
| | Index | p. 551 |