Acknowledgments

Preface

Part I Footloose: The Early Fiction

Bootprints: Jonathan Troy

Forward, March: The Brave Cowboy

Marking Time: Fire on the Mountain

Part II On Desert Trails: The Nonfiction

Trailblazing: Desert Solitaire

Wanderlust: The Journey Home and Abbey's Road

The Promenade: Appalachian Wilderness, Slickrock, Cactus Country, The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey, and Desert Images

Hiking Companions

Part III Cross Country: The Later Fiction

The Descent: Black Sun

Bushwhacking: The Monkey Wrench Gang

About, Face: Good News

Postscript: A Clean Hard Edge Divides

Afterword

Scott Slovic

Notes

Bibliography

Index