Introduction: Deep-Fried Pickles, Primal Screams, and "Big Empty" Poets and Storytellers 1. The Last Good Kiss: Slow Dancing in a Burning Room 2. Peach Pie: The Storyteller's Art Is the Romance of Survival 3. A Year in Taos: When Rationalism and Mysticism Collide in Northern New Mexico, Bigfoot Abides 4. Jokers Wild: Adventures of a Lab Rat Discovering Turtle Island 5. Life, Sex, and Death at the Edge of the Sea: The Strange and Beautiful Universe of Coastal Tide Pools 6. The Last Mile: Conversations with the Raven 7. The Language of Clouds: Clouds Are the Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives of Our Weather Systems 8.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ridiculous: As the West Dies of Thirst, Lawmakers Debate Moose Hunting with Spears Indian Country Redux 9. The Last Chance Saloon: Indian Boarding Schools, White Nationalism, and a Place Called Mandaree 10. The Digital Savage: A New Breed of Warrior Is Fighting the Indian Wars of the Twenty-First Century 11. Slouching Toward Standing Rock: Sitting Bull's Revenge on the Cannonball River 12. Between a Rock and a Dry Place: Surviving a Thousand-Year Drought on Black Mesa 13. Children of the Long-Beaked Bird: Fry Bread and Fancy Dancing at Crow Fair The Last Best Wilderness 14. In Praise of Older Women: Last Chance Encounters in Ganges 15. The Earring Chronicles: The Improbable Saga of SP1220-603, a Converse Tennis Shoe, and a Tahitian Earring 16.

Unvanquished: Sea Otters, Shellfish, and the Salmon People of the Salish Sea 17. Into the Mystic: A Stowaway's Great Adventure Epilogue: The "Great Smoke" and America's Drive-By History Acknowledgments.