Chapter I: Prologue: Old Lights of the Rio Brava 3

I. THIRTY YEARS LATE 23
II. AT HEASLEP’S RANCH 29
III. THE LEATHER-STORE 35
IV. ‘ARE YOU DOOMED?’ 44
V. ‘I, ROBERT LEADLEY--’ 54
VI. THE LISTENING MARE 64
VII. THE SOFT SIDE OF A SADDLE 71
VIII. HEASLEP’S AGAIN 78
IX. INITIATION 87
X. ‘WATER IS FOR HORSES’ 94
XI. GAS AND GUNS 101
XII. FLASHLIGHT AND FAWNSKIN 106
XIII. VALLEJO’S LINES 113
XIV. A LETTER 119
XV. TUCSON 120
XVI. THOROUGHBREDS ENTER 131
XVII. THE ART OF DYING WELL 138
XVIII. ONE SANG WITH GUITAR 146
XIX. A CORNER OF THE WALL 153
XX. THE TWO WHO HAD NOT HEARD 160
XXI. THE RIO MORENO BRIDGE 167
XXII. FRAMED IN A DOBE GATEWAY 173
XXIII. FENCELESS FOOTHILLS OF SONORA 178
XXIV. SHEATH-KNIFE 187
XXV. ELBERT LEARNS TO WAIT 196
XXVI. SILENCE 203
XXVII. WORDS 206
XXVIII. ‘LIKE THE VIRGIN SPEAKING--’ 211
XXIX. HIGH COUNTRY 218
XXX. TUCSON AGAIN 226

SOMEWHERE SOUTH IN SONORA