Author:
Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017.
Imprint:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Description:xiv, 282 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:Kitchen -- Haskell, Arkansas (Highway 70) -- Chatter -- Williams, Arizona (Highway 40 west) -- Duarte -- One night in the long-ag0 -- Indianapolis (Highway 74) -- These recent beheadings -- Classic embrace -- Alpine, Texas (Highway 90) -- Mission San Juan Capistrano -- Pity the poor mercenary -- Quanah, Texas -- Pea Ridge Battlefield, Arkansas -- San Juan Bautista (Highway 152) -- Brain fever -- Tops -- Thor's day (Highway 81 north, Staunton, Virginia) -- Cracker Barrel men's room (Highway 90 west) -- Face -- Costello.
Note:Time line -- Shame -- Esmeralda and the flipping hammer (Highway 152, continued) -- Tet offensive -- Mean green -- Poolside musings in sunny L.A. -- Seminole, Texas -- Las Vegas, New Mexico -- Nauvoo, Illinois -- Little people -- These days-Grand Canyon -- Lost art of wandering (Highway 152, continued) -- Duke of Earl -- Taos -- Wyoming (Highway 80 east) -- Buffalo trace -- Our dwelling is but a wandering -- Original sin -- Comanche -- Choirboy once -- Cat in a barn at night -- Philip, Sough Dakota (Highway 73) -- Nephophobia (Veterans Highway) -- Victorville, California (Highway 15) -- Elko, Nevada (Thunderbird Motel) -- Llanos.
Note:Faith, South Dakota (Interstate 25) -- Reason -- Horses racing men -- Man o'war -- Shoe -- Lightning man -- Saving fats -- Bossier City, Louisiana (Highway 220) -- Shreveport, Louisiana -- Casey moan -- Mr. Williams -- Five spot -- Knoxville, Tennessee (Highway 40) -- Head in the world -- Suddenly -- Tall thin white man -- Perpetual warrior -- Livingston, Montana -- Lost whistle -- She -- Majesty (Highway 101 south) -- Bright spots -- High noon moon (Highway 152, continued) -- Orange grove in my past -- Kingman, Arizona (Andy Devine Boulevard) -- Van Horn, Texas (Highway 10) -- Mercenary takes a stab at self-improvement.
Note:Interview in Cafe Pascual -- June bugs -- Herdbound -- Nine below -- Stillwater -- Dawson, Minnesota (Highway 212 east) -- Demon in the woods -- Gardening in the dark -- Happy man -- Promising two-year-old -- Mandan, North Dakota (Highway 94) -- Wichita , Kansas (Highway 20) -- Valentine, Nebraska (Highway 20) -- Christopher Columbus -- Devil's Music (Montana, Highway 2) -- I can make a deal -- Butte, Montana -- Get out of Butte altogether -- Ft. Robinson, Nebraska (Highway 20) -- Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation -- Rosebud, South Dakota (Highway 83 north) -- I though there was a hawk -- Mojado -- Normal (Highway 39 south) -- Elkhorn River -- Horse.
Note:Descendancy -- Durango, Mexico -- Tulum, Mexico -- Boca Paila, Mexico -- Mosquitoes -- Quintana Roo, Mexico -- Dogs really know -- Land of the living -- Screened-in porch -- Clarksville, Missouri (Little Dixie Highway) -- Where are we now? -- The Head reflects -- Bernalillo -- We sat around in rosy candlelight -- Black oath -- Paul -- Things you learn from others -- Rape and pillage -- Should he head north -- Lost coin -- Circling -- There's a man in a pay phone -- Back in the woods -- Holyoke -- One stone -- Regrets of the head -- Indio, California -- Wisconsin wilderness -- Distant songs of madmen -- These pills -- Rogers, Arkansas (Highway 62) -- Gracias.
