Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Celia Hill's Journal: Introduction -- Celia Hill's Journal: Prologue -- CHAPTER ONE: Life in Terlingua -- CHAPTER TWO: Rare Commodities -- CHAPTER THREE: Seven in One -- CHAPTER FOUR: Johnson's Ranch -- CHAPTER FIVE: Whistle While You Work -- CHAPTER SIX: The Spring -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Politics -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Pink Glass-Russo -- CHAPTER NINE: The Feed Bin and Border Patrol -- CHAPTER TEN: Predator Control -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: When the Dogs Bark -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Wash Day Blues -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: TB Paul
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Treasure to Trash-Trash to Treasure -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Rabbit Stew -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Chicken on Sunday -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Price of Pitayas -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Who Needs a Doctor? -- CHAPTER NINETEEN: Inspiration for Higher Education -- CHAPTER TWENTY: Decisions, Decisions -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: From Rags to Riches -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Dummy -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Mail Truck Swamper -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Beating the Rubber Shortage -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Pulling Up Slack -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Don't Fence Me In -- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Our Senior Trip
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: My Last Cattle Drive -- CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Return to a Remote Canyon Paradise -- CELIA SMITH HILL FAMILY TREE -- CELIA HILL TIMELINE -- MAP OF PRESIDIO COUNTY -- APPENDIX: "Show 990" Transcript: Bob Phillips interview with Celia Hill -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS