Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreward: Message from the Dalai Lama
Prologue: The Trail to Tibet, 1922
1. Blood or Bread: The Early Life of Albert Shelton, 1875-1880
2. Strange Country: The Frontier Education of Albert Shelton, 1880-1893
3. Good Towns and Tibetan Dreams: Respectability and Romance
4. Journey to the Borderlands: From the Midwest to the Himalayas
5. The Portal: Tachienlu and the Challenge of Kham
6. Bayonets to Kham: Chao Erh-feng and the Christian Missionaries
7. The Doctor in Kham: 1908-1909
8. Conquests, Curios, and Conversions: Batang, 1909-1910
9. This Great Awful City: Furlough, 1910-1913
10. Shattered Charms and New Perspectives: Batang, 1914-1917
11. The Next Livingstone: Shelton in Kham, 1918-1919
12. The Devil's Own Cauldron: Yunnan, 1919-1920
13. The Hero Returns: Furlough, 1920-1921
14. Back to Batang, 1921
15. The Thorn Bush, 1922
16. Epilogue, The Legacy of Dr. Albert Shelton Notes and Sources Index