Mountains Of Memory: A Fire Lookout'S Life Book

Foreword by Wayne Franklin, xi
Preface, xxiii
Acknowledgments, xxix
SPRING
1 Settling In, 3
2 Working a Lookout, 15
3 Visitors, 27
SUMMER
4 Independence Day, 41
5 Eyes in the Sky: A Brief History of Fire Lookouts, 46
6 Some Former Inhabitants, 53
7 Running the River, 77
8 Midsummer Musings and Field Notes, 103
9 Fire on the Mountain, Lightning in the Air, log
10 Society, 117
11 Friends, 123
12 Pleasing Prospects, 130
13 Getting to the Source of Things, 135
14 The Bighorn Crags, 141
15 The Eagle Bar Fire, 157
FALL
16 Hunting, the Fundamental Diversion;' 171
17 The Habit of Walking, 178
18 The Fires of Fall, 182
19 Worship, 185
WINTER
20 Last Visitors, 193
21 Disappearances, 201
22 The State of Nature, 206
Coda, 212
Select Bibliography, 215
Index, 221