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Ancestors in the Landscape
TABLE OF CONTENTS


Western Land      
  Western Land     8
  Badlands     9
  Ways of Being Incorporated   10
  Left Behind   11
  Wyoming   12
  After a Hard Winter   13
  Sun Dances with Color   14
  Powerful Medicine   15
  Medicine Wheel   16
  Linen   18
  Big Horn Mountains   19
  Western Sky   20
       
Counting in Sheepmen's Dreams      
  Family Ranch   22
  Ranch   23
  Mentors   25
  Shot With Expectation   28
  Mountain Oysters   31
  "Feed My Sheep"   32
  Sheepman Dead   34
  Jacketing a Lamb   35
  The Trail   38
  Mouthing Out   44
  Litany for a Rancher   46
  Brush Fire   48
  Leaving Both Children and Land   50
  One Hundred Year Old Herd   51
  Desert on the Tongue   53
  Ranch Family on Family Ranch   54
       
Wildlife and Livestock      
  Cabin Packrat   56
  Caring for the Crow   57
  Dolly's Family Tree   60
  Stalking Woman and Bull Elk's Eyes   61
  Racoon Visits   63
  Having Tread, as Birds, the Air   64
  Encounter   65
  Border Collie   67
  Lethal White   68
       
Mutton Tough and Woolsack Soft      
  Two Step   72
  Gee, It's Great   74
  Kinesiology   76
  Offering   77
  Loss   78
  Sleeping in Mother's Studio   79
  Father Places   81
  Bethrothal   82
  At Home in the Wild   83
  Parkinson's   86
  Season   87
  Night Fishing   88
  Meeting at Home   89
  In the Path of the Forest Fire   90
  A Dream of Living Coal   92
  My Grandmother's Skin   93
  Before She Left   94
       
People of Sagebrush Country      
  Recollections of Place   98
  Pioneer Spirit   100
  High-Necked Lace and Rightness   101
  Churning Butter   104
  Seamstress   106
  Fossil Hunting on Sheep Mountain   108
  Paleontology   109
  Geology   111
  Executive Order   112
  Heart Mountain Internment Camp   113
  Issei Mother at Heart Mountain   115
  Heart Mountain War Memorial   116
  Seventy-Fifth Annual Hyattville Old Timers' Picnic   117
  A Hundred Years Later   119
       
Faces in the Landscape      
  Pack Trip   122
  Initials Carved   123
  In the Landscape   125
  To a Man of Few Words   127
  Apology to My Son for the Fact of His Birthplace   128
  Maggots   129
  Gift   131
       
Dappled Velvet Hours      
  Cocoon of Winged Days   134
  Woman Becomes Heartwood   135
  The Sound of Hollow   136
  Ghost Town   138
  In the Timber   139
  They're Coming   140
  Yellow Gold   142
  Mountain Meadow in Bloom   144
  Leaving the Mountains   145
  Firsts   146
  Nourishment   147
  Come Home   148
  Backward Boots   149
  Going On   150
  After the Last Page   151

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