Contents
Foreword / William Kittredge
Preface / Peter Pearsall
Introduction / Alan L. Contreras
Part 1: State of Nature
The Paiute Experience / Peter Walker
Sage Sparrow Singing / Maitreya
The German Visitors, Part 1 / Charles Emil Bendire
Desert Lessons / Ursula K. Le Guin
The Marshes of Malheur / Dallas Lore Sharp
Excerpt from Poet in the Desert / C. E. S. Wood
Part 2: The Meaning of Refuge
Malheur Then and Now / Ira N. Gabrielson
My Summer in Paradise / Tom McAllister
Malheur before Dawn / William Staffor
John Scharff's Malheur / Tom McAllister and David B. Marshall
Harney County Catenaries / Ursula K. Le Guin
Prize of the 48 States / David B. Marshall
Malheur Childhood / John F. Marshall
Part 3: Desert Pilgrimage
The Soul of the River: Redband Trout / Maitreya
Up in a Cottonwood / Ursula K. Le Guin
Digging for Universals / Greg Bryant
Alvord Desert Stars / David Hedges
High Centered / Ellen Waterston
Wild Geese / Ada Hastings Hedges
Malheur in Winter / Noah K. Strycker
My Infinite Summer / Thomas C. Meinzen
Artemisia tridentata / Ursula K. Le Guin
The Nighthawks of Malheur / Harry Fuller
The German Visitors, Part 2 / Hendrik Herlyn
Malheur at 14 / Alan L. Contreras
Packing with WZ / Chas Biederman
Two Sides of the Mountain / Sean Burns
Life List / Quinton Hallett
Desert Sisters / Meli Hull
Epilogue: Germany 1944/Malheur 2002: Tod und Verklärung
Derivations and Permissions
Bibliography
Contributors