Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vi
3. Foreword 1
4. Poetry
5. Detail of the Four Chambers to the Horse’s Heart 7
6. Hoof Rot 9
7. Cowboy 10
8. Longhorn at the Car Wash 11
9. The Bad Guy 12
10. Late Harvest 13
11. Those Montana Men 14
12. Rebellion 15
13. Letter to Weingar ten Writ ten as the Script for an Imaginary Western 17
14. The Hero with a Thousand Faces Rides Again 19
15. Chico Hot Springs Saloon, MT 20
16. Working Below Zero 22
17. Horses and Cowboys Suffer Together 23
18. Trail Ride 25
19. Blood Brothers 29
20. Simile 31
21. To Pray at the Altar of this Horse 32
22. Lucky Says 34
23. More . . . Your Gunslinger Shadow Grows Amber 35
24. Assisted Living in a Rocking Chair 36
25. Carrying Our Loads 37
26. A Rancher’s Rainstorm 38
27. The Cattle 40
28. Ode to Robert McClure 42
29. Raw 43
30. After Chores 44
31. Cowboys 45
32. The Ranch Woman’s Secret 47
33. First Rodeo 48
34. Burial for Horsemen 50
35. Big Horn Passover 51
36. Long After Memory Is Gone 53
37. Sonnets of Selecting an Appaloosa 55
38. Three Haiku 57
39. Prayers for the World 58
40. Fiction
41. Cowboy Stories 61
42. Real Cowboy 71
43. The Society Of Pardners To Melt Alaska 78
44. Essays
45. Eight Fragments from My Grandfather’s Body 87
46. Feedlot Cowboy 97
47. Hiding in the Cornrows 117
48. Calving Time 126
49. Contributors
50. Contributor Notes 131
51. About the Editors and Designer 138