First edition published 1915. Contents: Family History; First Split in the Church; Beginning of the Norwegian-American Press; More Family History; I Leave Home; Leave Milwaukee; Half Way Creek; Back Home; Go to Decorah; Discipline of the School; The Students Rebel; What Became of Me? The Next Day; The Missouri Synod; Ambitious Plans; Albion Academy; Reply to a Protest; More About Albion Academy; My Third Year at Albion; Swedes Settle on the North Shore of Koshkonong Lake; All is Well; Dip Into the Political Sea; Am Elected Representative to the Annual Synod Meeting; I Meet Ole Bull; Letter from a Schoolmate; Pride Goeth Before a Fall; More About Albion; Albion Students; I Leave Albion; More Trouble; At the University; Chadbourne Leaves the University; My First Visit to Norway; An Ole Bull Episode; Land in the Old World; Prof. Sven Oftedal; Back to Norway; The Millennial Celebration; Stavanger and Vicinity; The Petit Done and the Undone Vast; The John A. Johnson Fund; The Leif Erikson Monument; Meet Thomas A. Edison; In Norway Again; Björnson as a Fellow Traveler; Ole Bull, Edward Grieg and Björnson; Prof. Sven Loven; Return to America; More About the Leif Erikson Monument; Strenuous Days; First Chair of Scandinavian Languages; 'Norse Mythology'; More About Ole Bull; Odds and Ends; J.C. Dundas; Survey of Field in the Seventies; Myself Again; Landsmaal in Norway; More About the Seventies; St. John's Day; More Odds and Ends; How Butterfield Saw Me in 1879; The Icelanders; More About the Icelanders; Controversies; The Fleischer Episode; Kristofer Janson; Knut Hamsun; More About Knut Hamsun; Carl Lumholtz; The Busy Seventies; Hungarian Literature; Remenyi and Petöfi; More About Remenyi and Petöfi; Birth of the Missouri Synod; Björnson Visits America; Arne Kulterstad; More About Björnson; Life Insurance; Paul du Chaillu; Leave the University; Life Insurance Continued; I Insure Prof. Sven Oftedal; The Madison Literary Club; Ygdrasil; A Term as Diplomat; Dangerous Shoals and Breakers Ahead; American Diplomats; Leave New York; Arrive in Copenhagen and Call on Worsaae; Received at Court; Court Etiquette; The Czar; Official Calls; Estrup; Carlos Butterfield & Co; A Wedding in High Life; The Kearsarge and the Pensacola; Postal Money Orders; A Case of Extradition; Peder Sorensen; Heineman Sends Pork to New York; Olaf Poulsen; The Jacobsens; Sarah Bernhardt; Bismarck; Johan Sverdrup; The Czar is Humbled; Claude McDonald; Democracy; Munich; Henrik Ibsen; Georg Brandes; August Strindberg; Goldschmidt; Count Carl von Snoilsky; Random Notes; Standard Oil; The King of Portugal and His Minister; Odds and Ends; Lectures; Rosenborg Wine; Callers; A Danish-American Paper Attacks Royal Family of Denmark; Literary Work; Diplomats Must Not Talk; Emperor Wilhelm II; Lincoln; The Prince of Wales; My Diplomatic Career Ends; What Became of Enander; Clark E. Carr; Mr. Barton and I Take a Rest; Mr. Barton and I Resume Work; I Go to Work Again in America; Life Insurance; I Become a Journalist; Rubber; I Visit Mexico; I Am Wrecked; The Bennet Law; More Politics; Prominent Wisconsin People; I Become Postmaster; R.M. La Follette; Det Norske Selskab; Rupture With Our Saviour's Congregation; My Portrait in Snorre; Time to Close; Bibliography; Appendix (A letter from Hon. W.D. Hoard; A letter from John M. Olin; A letter from George L. Williams).