Prologue: The Spirit of Ella

Part One: Groundwork
Chapter 1: Scow and Schooner: From New York to Wisconsin
Chapter 2: Axe and Cradle: Breaking the Land and Making Ella

Part Two: Lost Hops and Lager Beer
Chapter 3: Hops on the Rise in the 1850s
Chapter 4: “The Wild Grass of the Marshes Has Changed”: Hops on the Move 1861–66
Chapter 5: “Thirty Regiments in Calico”: The Women of the Hop Boom

Part Three: Death Knell
Chapter 6: “The Great Avenue for Losing Money”: 1868
Chapter 7: Even Out and Fade Away: 1869 and Beyond
Chapter 8: Death and Rebirth in the Wisconsin Countryside

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index