Prologue: The river has been here for ten thousand years
The midnight ride of Kimmy the Kid
Red socks and Secretary Watt
Not recommended for rehire
[2] Ten years later : Toklat River
In the presence of absence
Kantishna gold and Usibelli coal
[3] Another ten years later : Wonder Lake
The bear is nowhere and everywhere
The battle below Mount Galen
[4] Another ten years later : East Fork cabin
[5] Two years later : Wonder Lake
Epilogue: My inner porcupine.
