Table of Contents

• Foreword (Larry L. King)
• Introduction (Steven L. Davis)
• Part 1: Strange Peaches in the "Land of the Permanent Wave"
  • Is He Edwin, or Is He Bud?
  • Cops Eat Kid's Pet
  • Priest Taunted at Mansfield
  • Letter: April 10, 1963, from the Navel of Mother Europe
  • Jason and the Oui Oui Club (from But Not for Love)
  • The Land of the Permanent Wave
  • John Lee Wallace, Reporting from Dallas (from Strange Peaches)
  • There Will Be Chickens
  • The Hunts of Dallas
  • Visit to Big Earl's (from Strange Peaches)
  • Letter: August 7, 1969, on Dallas
  • The Kennedy Motorcade (from Strange Peaches)
  • No Day for Games
• Part 2: From New York to Chihuahua
  • Letter: February 2, 1966, to NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle
  • Letters from New York, 1964-1966
  • The Once-Forbidding Land
  • Gerhardt's Farm (from Blessed McGill)
  • Matthew Caldwell in Houston City (from The Borderland)
  • Letter: May 29, 1965, on Writing Blessed McGill
  • Letter: September 8, 1966, on Visiting Chihuahua
  • The Tarahumaras: A Lonely Tribe of Long-Distance Runners
  • Letter: October 4, 1967, on the Publication of Blessed McGill
  • Going into Chihuahua (from Blessed McGill)
• Part 3: Mad Dogs and Outlaws
  • The Best-Kept Secret in America (from Willie: An Autobiography)
  • The Screwing Up of Austin
  • Letter: December 16, 1969, on Mad Dog, Inc.
  • The Regenerator Erection Laboratory (from Peter Arbiter)
  • Letter: August 1, 1969, from Zihuatanejo
  • Scenes from Kid Blue ("Dime Box")
  • Letter: November 4, 1973, on Larry Mahan
  • Horsing Around with Bull
  • Rafting the Big Bend
• Part 4: Night Never Falls
  • Letters to Larry L. King, 1978-1983
  • Scene from "Pancho Villa and Ambrose Bierce"
  • Scenes from "The Big Mamoo"
  • The Angels of Dien Bien Phu (from Night Never Falls)
  • Letter: March 8, 1988, to LLK, on Being "Sodbuster Two"
  • Backstories: Sodbusters One and Two
  • Letter: February 12, 1998, to LLK, on Getting Older
  • Showdown at the Colonial (from Billy Boy)
  • From Custer's Brother's Horse
  • How to Live Forever