The Rathbun affair -- Fire on the Erie -- Millard Fillmore -- Grover Cleveland -- Indian claims -- French internal strife -- HMS Ontario -- Upper river dangers -- Greedy falls workers -- A dewatered Niagara Falls -- Forgotten on the tower -- Thomas V. Welch -- Letters from the past -- Soldier's Falls journal -- The Bloody Eighth -- Buffalo's Seneca Ely Parker -- Henry Hubbs Hotel -- Monteagle Hotel -- Prospect House -- Twins history -- Ghostly farm -- North Tonawanda promoter -- The Buffalo courier-express -- Captain Van Cleve -- F.J. Tone -- E.T. Williams and Peter A. Porter -- Fred Krull -- Women's contributions -- Cop Bonacker -- Mayor Max -- Buffalo Pan-Am Exposition -- Old timers reminiscences -- Ebeneezer Allan -- Seven Sutherland sisters -- Buffalo's Thayer hangings -- Wild Bill -- Niagara County fruit -- Remembering Somerset -- Turner libel trial.