Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-523).

Broken arm -- Where is the voice coming from? -- Watch for two coyotes, crossing -- Along the Red Deer and the South Saskatchewan -- The year we gave away the land -- From Montreal, 1848 -- Games for Queen Victoria -- A night in Fort Pitt, or (if you prefer) the only perfect Communists in the world -- The fish caught in the Battle River -- Oolulik -- Dialogue at an exhibition -- The naming of Albert Johnson -- After thirty years of marriage -- Sailing to Danzig -- All on their knees -- The power -- Tudor king -- Scrapbook -- The house smashers -- Lake Isle of Innisfree -- They just won't believe -- Growing up in Rosebud -- The darkness inside the mountain -- Speaking Saskatchewan -- Chinook Christmas -- The angel of the tar sands -- Seeing is believing -- Millstone for the sun's day -- Did Jesus ever laugh? -- Believing is not seeing -- Life story -- Crash -- Urn burial -- A history of the new world -- Bluecoats on the sacred hill of the wild peas -- In the ear of the beholder -- The Blindman River contradictions -- Shadow of a rock -- The shells of the ocean -- An indication of burning -- The good maker -- There's a muddy road -- Sleeping (uneasily) with Franz Kafka -- Home for night -- Except God, who already knows -- Bears, all the time bears -- Someday soon, before tomorrow -- The funny money of 1980 -- The oil capitals of Canada -- Finally, the frozen ocean.