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