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Acknowledgements | ix |
Introduction | 1 |
Part I Southern California Nevada | |
1 Emmy | 7 |
2 Pegleg Smith's Lost Gold Mine | 11 |
3 Fossils in the Desert | 14 |
4 The Search Begins for Main Street | 18 |
5 Oh-My-God Springs | 21 |
6 The Story of the Salton Sea | 25 |
7 Hunting for a Caboose | 30 |
8 Rest Stop of Wilted People | 32 |
9 A Day Dedicated to the Caboose | 37 |
10 El Garces: A Harvey House | 41 |
11 The Last Boomtown | 44 |
12 Highway 95: 450 Miles and One Traffic Light | 49 |
13 Old Saloons and Tiffany Lamps | 54 |
14 A Class Act of the Old West | 58 |
15 A One-Sidewalk, One-Airplane Town | 61 |
16 Potluck Booze Made Pizen Switch | 66 |
Part II Northern California Oregon | |
17 Isolated by Its Hugeness | 73 |
18 California's "Highest" Town | 75 |
19 It's Illegal Not to Have a Gun | 77 |
20 Where Flies Come toDie | 80 |
21 The Driftwood Capital | 85 |
22 A Two-Year-Old Trucker | 90 |
23 Harley-Davidson vs. Honda | 93 |
24 A White-Circle Town | 95 |
25 Living Close to the Land | 97 |
26 The Sucker Jar of Surprise Valley | 102 |
27 The Oldest Living Things | 107 |
28 Can't Root for the Hometown Team | 109 |
Part III Central California | |
29 Perched on the San Andreas Fault | 117 |
30 Jake's Fish Farm | 122 |
31 A Town That Deserves a Medal | 125 |
32 Its Name Preceded It | 128 |
33 Searching for Main Street | 132 |
34 Where Butterflies Spend the Winter | 137 |
35 A Convex, Equilateral, Three-Sided Temple | 139 |
36 Adventures on a Narrow-Gauge Speeder | 141 |
37 Vandenberg's Thirty-Mile Beach | 144 |
38 Fog, Flowers, and Watermelon Seeds | 146 |
39 Servicetown, USA | 150 |
Part IV California Arizona Utah | |
40 Home for a Visit | 157 |
41 The Year's Longest Day | 160 |
42 Route 66 | 163 |
43 The One-Man Post Office | 165 |
44 The Sun's Hot Grip | 168 |
45 The Grand Canyon vs. Route 66 | 170 |
46 "Little Hollywood" | 174 |
47 Maybe America's Only Ant Hunter | 179 |
48 "Catfish" Charlie on Butch Cassidy | 184 |
49 Silver Oozed from the Rock | 187 |
50 Dixie Country | 190 |
51 A Monument to a Massacre | 193 |
52 Pioneer Day | 196 |
Part V Wyoming Utah | |
53 Welcome to Wyoming | 203 |
54 A Subterranean City | 205 |
55 Oregon Trail Trading Post | 208 |
56 Greatest Pioneer Movement in History | 210 |
57 The Beaver Hat | 215 |
58 Ranch Girls Aren't Prissy | 220 |
59 J.C. Penney Mother Store | 224 |
60 Inside the Temple | 229 |
61 Columbus Day is Transferable | 234 |
62 Truck Attack on the Library | 239 |
Part VI Arizona Colorado New Mexico | |
63 A Bad Day for Arizona | 245 |
64 Indian Country | 248 |
65 Mostly Texans Here | 251 |
66 The Anasazi: Now We Know | 256 |
67 Ten-Cent Coffee | 262 |
68 The Uranium Rush of 1950 | 265 |
69 On the Santa Fe Trail | 268 |
70 A Route Around Albuquerque | 274 |
71 Where Dust Bunnies Can't Hide | 277 |
72 Street of Healing Magic | 280 |
73 The True Journey Never Ends | 285 |
About the Author | 287 |
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