Contents
Preface by Kenneth L. Untiedt
Introduction and Dedication
The White Chapel
Hitzfelder
What Toll Road?
Freddie at Maude’s
Shavano
The Mobile Market
Stations of the Cross
John Marnock’s Dog
The Other Barber
The Dowser
Spring
By Any Other Name
Wayfaring Strangers
Charcoal City
Cave Dwellers
Seabirds
Chewing Tobacco
The Natural Cure
Bird-Boy
Edwards Flat
Daisy and the Stork—
The Indian Tree
The Moeller-Marnock Shootout (Marnock version)
The Culvert
The Devil in the Outhouse
The Trophy Buck
Nomad
Indian Middens and Graves
Fools’ Gold
The Skeleton House
Phantom Cemetery
Cisterns?
The Wolf Man
The Buzzard Colony
The Rustler
Snakes
The Invisible Bootlegger(s)
The Devil’s Slide
Lost Gold
The Totem
Postal Service
The Merry-Eye
The Barn Ghost
Lucy’s Treasures
Murder I
The White Witch
Murder II
Artifacts
Cleto
Mr. Brauchle’s School
Scaring Indians
The Kid
Sam’s Innocent Heart
July 4, 1976
The Fence
The Famous Stew
Our Lady of Zion
Watermelons
Infant Mortality
The Name: A Place with Three Mothers
Lily’s Bottle
St. Cecilia’s Eyes
The Waltz Contest
Story-Teller
Stringtown: An Elegy
Index