Family man -- I've always loved this place -- Them old cowboy songs -- The sagebrush kid -- Great divide -- Deep-blood-greasy-bowl -- Swamp mischief -- Testimony of the donkey -- Tits-up in a ditch.

Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck-unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy.