My ancestors -- That failed anthropologist, my father -- The ranch -- My mother's first marriage -- The family I was born into -- How green was her valley -- A piratical fraternity -- High school -- My early college years -- A missionary -- Althea -- Nebo by moonlight -- A grasshopper's way of life -- A silvery tinkling laughter -- An entire landscape of possibilities -- A wilderness journal -- Becoming a writer -- Putting a pathology to use -- The canyons of grace -- The backslider -- My mother's house -- Juanita Brooks -- Night soil -- Our compass swings northwest -- A stillborn book -- Retrenchment on the liberal Mormon front -- Armchair mountaineer -- Aspen Marooney -- Good-bye to Utah -- Running out of sunsets.
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