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Tables of Contents

Daybreak over Anderson Valley

Turned Round in my Boots

“I’m a poor boy, I’m a long way from home,
the world can’t do me no harm.”
—Howling Wolf**

**(ARC Music Group. Used with permission.)

Strike Another Match • 1

Rural Manpower • 17

Ties that Bind • 24

Hacienda de Calistoga • 41

The Jimtown Saloon • 53

The Big Blow • 63

Sir, No Sir • 77

Miguel’s Revenge • 88

Fayettenam • 102

So Long, Dixie • 114

Sugar Candy Mountain • 128

Busted • 143

The Slammer • 153

Two Hots and a Cold • 168

An Embarrassment of Riches • 176

The Great Outdoors • 187

Knights Valley • 197

The River Bend • 206

Hippy Heaven • 226

Baja Mendocino • 232

 

Walking Tractor

A Gentleman of the Woods, Foreward by Gerald Nicosia • ix

Author’s Preface • xv

Stomping Fleeces • 1

Slinging Steel • 15

Highballing • 29

Christmas in Cloverdale • 42

Walking Tractor • 48

Trespassing • 55

Hillbilly Capitalism • 61

Accidentally Drunk • 77

Bloomfield’s Roost • 85

“I Ain’t No Catskinner” • 88

A Convention of Crows • 99

The Cowboy and the Trapper • 103

Whacking Weeds • 108

To Fell a Corncob • 113

The Turkey and the Raven • 120

Tending Hook • 122

The Angle of Repose • 135

Badlands • 148

Waterbirds • 153

The Blue Redwoods • 155

The Wildman of Pardaloe Peak • 158

Mild Horses • 163

Horse Women • 171

Conversations with Horses • 183

Who I am and Why I Wrote This Book • 191

A Glossary of Lumberjack Lingo • 205