Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866) is primarily remembered as Alexis de Tocqueville's travel companion and literary executor. He was co-author, with Tocqueville, of On the Penitentiary System in the United States.

• Introduction, 1999, by Gerard FergersonPublisher's NoteIntroduction, by Alvis L. TinninForeword, by Gustave de BeaumontChapter 1. PrologueChapter 2. American WomenChapter 3. Ludovic, of the Departure From EuropeChapter 4. An American FamilyChapter 5. MarieChapter 6. The Baltimore AlmshouseChapter 7. The MysteryChapter 8. The RevelationChapter 9. The TestChapter 10. Continuation of the TestChapter 11. The Test: Episode of OnedaChapter 12. The Test: Literature and Fine ArtsChapter 13. The RiotChapter 14. Departure from Civilized AmericaChapter 15. The Virgin Forest and the WildernessChapter 16. The TragedyChapter 17. EpilogueAppendixes:A. Note on the Social and Political Condition of the Negro Salves and of Free People of ColorB. Note on American WomenC. Note on American AnglophobiaD. Notes on Blue LawsE. Note on the Indulgence of American Society to BankruptsF. Note on Polygamy Among American IndiansG. Note on American SociabilityH. Note on American CrudenessI. Note on Equality in American SocietyJ. Note on American TheatersK. Note on the Present Condition of the Indian Tribes of North AmericaL. Note on the New York Race Riots of 1834

Beaumont's chef-d'oeuvre was, and has remained, illuminating . . . It follows that to readers of the present work the book of 1835 will seem strangely and wonderfully familiar . . . Marie will be a book of echoes.—George Wilson Pierson, Tocqueville in America