Contents

1. Title Page
2. Copyright Notice
3. Copyright Acknowledgement
4. Hewey and the Wagon Cook
5. Fighting for the Brand
6. Coward
7. The Black Sheep
8. A Bad Cow Market
9. Duster
10. No Music for Fiddle Feet
11. The Debt of Hardy Buckelew
12. The Burial of Letty Strayhorn
13. Horse Well
14. Continuity
15. Yellow Devil
16. Dry Winter
17. The Reluctant Shepherd
18. That 7X Bull
19. Man on the Wagon Tongue
20. Also by Elmer Kelton
21. About the Author
22. Copyright