Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- About Hunts and Home Fires -- Growing up in Alaska -- Rose Cochran's Nasturtiums -- Life As An Alaska Entrepreneur -- My First Rifle -- An Apology to Miss Rodland -- Recreational Gold Hunting -- The Dunking of E. Waneta Coring -- Alaska Statehood, A Big Night! -- Working for Nick -- The Local Jacket -- Hunting Mine Mountain -- Don't Eat the Putshki! -- UofA Engineers Day -- Trouble Bruin -- My First Client -- Land Otter Man -- Twins for the Pot -- The Kids at Skwentna -- Sheep Fever -- A Day Worth Spending -- The Weather Spirit of Birch Creek -- Little Tok Grizzly -- Dyea Beach -- The Other House -- The Goats of Victor Creek -- Who Speaks for the Salmon? -- Mom's Broke Leg -- The Three-Legged Deer -- On Keeping a Diary -- Alaska Range Moose -- Murder Lake, Fact or Fiction? -- Alaska Bowhunting Details -- The Woodstove -- Needed, Support from America -- Three Culprits in Bear Country -- How Fairbanks Came to Be -- A Hunting Partner -- West Kodiak Passage -- Lamentations of a Camp Cook -- "Oh My God, I'm Dead!" -- The Fly Fishing Malady -- Powerful Confused, but Never Lost -- Have We Been Here Before? -- Bear-Baiting Myths -- Sourdough Don't Fly -- Remembering Fred Bear -- A Memorial for The Futz -- A Good Mulligan -- The Rock and the Hard Place -- Picking the Ideal Client -- South Fork Reflections -- When Optics Are Your Best Friend |