1927-37: Stump Creek, West Virginia -- Hallelujah on the bum -- How it was -- Drunk in the afternoon -- Journal IV: November 10, 1951-Edinburgh, Scotland -- From the fool's progress -- From the brave cowboy -- Author's introduction to desert solitaire -- The first morning -- The serpents of paradise -- Polemic; industrial tourism anhd the national parks -- Tukuhnikivats, the island in the desert -- Appalachian pictures -- Appalachia, good-bye -- My life as a P.I.G., or the true adventures of smokey the cop -- From black sun -- 1971-77: henry in love-an interlude.
The wooden shoe conspiracy -- The raid at comb wash -- Death Valley junk -- Meeting the bear -- Aravaipa Canyon -- A Colorado River journal -- From good news -- Desert images -- The damnation of a canyon -- Gather at the river -- River solitaire: a daybook -- Free speech: the cowboy and his cow -- Theory of anarchy -- Eco-defense -- Immigration and liberal taboos -- A writer's credo -- Postlude to The Fool's Progress.