Preface: Before 42 xi
Part One Coming Together
1 Prairieland of Opportunity
3(7)
2 Grasshoppers and Hickory Sticks
10(19)
3 Birth of a Salesman
29(17)
4 Worlds Apart
46(12)
5 Over the Color Line
58(11)
6 Throwing Fire
69(9)
7 Showtime
78(15)
8 Nameless Dread
93(8)
Part Two Playing Together
9 Come and Gone
101(11)
10 Feeling the Heat
112(9)
11 Marriages and Separations
121(7)
12 Cat and Moose
128(13)
13 Long Rifle Rides Again
141(14)
14 "A Riotous Opera of Extra-Base Hits ..."
155(18)
Part Three Tested Together
15 Little Man, Big Idea
173(16)
16 Gunfight at the Cowtown Corral
189(18)
17 Big Gun
207(16)
18 The Erle of Oklahoma
223(7)
19 Last Team Standing
230(15)
20 "Plenty of Barn Room"
245(15)
21 Endings
260(7)
22 Deep Smoke Winding
267(22)
Acknowledgments 289(6)
A Note on Sources 295(4)
Notes 299