Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Great Taos Bank Robbery: A Foreword Anne Hillerman xi
Chapter 1 The Great Taos Bank Robbery 1
Chapter 2 The Navajo Who Had So Many Friends He Couldn't Get No Wire Strung 13
Chapter 3 The Very Heart of Our Country 15
Chapter 4 The Mountain on the Guardrail at Exit 164B 25
Chapter 5 We All Fall Down 27
Chapter 6 The Messenger Birds 42
Chapter 7 The Conversion of Cletus Xywanda 46
Chapter 8 The Apache Who Wouldn't Be Missed 53
Chapter 9 The Hunt for the Lost American 55
Chapter 10 How Quemado Got Quemado 77
Chapter 11 Las Trampas 79
Chapter 12 Black Jack Ketchum and the Sixteen Faithful Bartenders 95
Chapter 13 Othello in Union County 98
Chapter 14 The Committee and the Mule Deer 110
Chapter 15 Quijote in Rio Arriba County 113
Chapter 16 Keeping Secrets from the Russians 135
Chapter 17 Mr. Luna's Lazarus Act 138
Author's Notes 149