Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraphs

Stories We Tell: Today

Days Her Missing: 1958

The Peach Pit: 1958

Peach Days: 1958

Thicker than Blood: 1958

What Mine Eye Hath Seen: 1958

In the Beginning: 1929

Stories We Tell: Today

Seven Hundred Acres: 1958

The Artist at Work: 1929

To Dirt She Returneth: 1958

Signs to Show the Way: 1958

He Was, You Know, Thataway: 1929

This is How She Survived: 1958

Here’s What Didn’t Make the Paper: 1958

Stories We Tell: Today

His Masterpiece: 1929–1930

Bring Her Back to Elberta: 1958

The Last Last Conquistador: 1958

She Could of Done Worse: 1958

Till Death Do They Part: 1930

The Hole in Lee Malone’s Guitar: 1958

Stories We Tell: Today

In the Eye of the Looker: 1958

This Didn’t Make the Paper Either: 1958

Blood’s All You Got Left: 1959

Stories We Tell: Today

Elberta Dawn: 1958

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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