Introduction to The way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday -- Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Flip / Ivan Doig -- Logging and pimping and "Your pal, Jim" -- Norman Maclean -- From The milagro beanfield war / John Nichols -- From Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya -- Walking out / David Quammen -- The solace of open spaces / Gretel Ehrlich -- Cape Solitude / Edward Abbey -- Weeds / Rick DeMarinis -- Winterkill / Richard Ford -- Why I love country music / Elizabeth Tallent -- The system / Robert Mayer -- The last man alive / Alan Prendergast -- Home fires / David Long -- We are not in this together / William Kittredge -- The el western / Thomas McGuane -- Cliff dwellers / Russell Martin -- From Winter in the blood / James Welch.
