Introduction Book One - The Family A Pair of Loafers - Six Months Earlier Six Men in Black Suits - One Year Later The Invisible Parakeet - Twelve Years Earlier A Very Western Marriage So What the Hell is a Cowboy? The Cowboy Critters Stacking Hay If You Don't Know What's Wrong with You The Loneliness Book Two - The Boy Dying with Your Boots On Black Shetlands The Three Snowflakes Urban West One Time Boy Women's Clubs Never Enough Late-Night Hoops A Fat Lip The Subject About Which We Will Never Speak The Legacy of Violence First Date The Cowboy II Chasing the Lamb Book 3 - The Man The Performer The Perfect Drunk Loss and More Loss Away from Home Losing my Grip John Lennon and a Bottle of Kahlua Out the Window Beer Commercials The End of the Honeymoon The Accidental Sailor Fifteen Years on the One-Year Plan Heart Attacks and Rich People The Sage of Fortune Cookies Western Narrative II Everything I Say is Absolutely Fascinating Knight on a White Horse The Cowboy III Return of the Prodigal Son The Artistic Soul The Big C and the Impostor Syndrome Two Deaths and a Funeral Married to My Work Sisters and Mothers The Western Narrative III Real Men One Last Story about Montana Acknowledgements.