Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
First Stage (1877-1901)
Among the Thlinkits in Alaska
An Indian Horse-Race
Chief Joseph, the Nez-Percé
Man's Battle with the Titans Is Begun
A Book of Tales
How Yehl Escaped from the Fire Demon and Brought Fire to the Thlinkits
The Love of Red Bear and Feather Cloud
How the Coyote Stole Fire for the Klamaths
How the Spirit Coyote Passed from Earth
Second Stage (1899-1911)
Pacific Monthly
Anarchy and Anarchists
Divorce and Divorce Again
Argument
Woman Sufferage
Direct Primary
Why Strikes
The Anarchist Creed
Henry George and Single Tax
A Masque of Love
The Short Stories
The Toast
The Deserted Cabin
The Christmas Burder
Portland's Feast of Roses
The Exhibition of Paintings of Eastern Oregon by Childe Hassam
The Chant of El Dorado
Sonnet X from "Desert Sonnets"
Friend, Let this Be My Voice to Thee
Irrigating
On the Making of Books
The Deserter
Third Stage (1912-1920)
Thanksgiving at the House of Ayer
The Poetry
Once More I Lie upon the Grassy Spot
How Christ Spent His Christmas
Three editions of The Poet in the Desert
Prologue
Man Declares
Behold the Silver-kirtled Dawn
I See My White-faced Sisters
This is the Pedigree of Degradation
I Have Lived with My Brown Brothers
Just over there where you Purple Peak
Broad as the Front of the Sea
When August Noons are Hot
Maia
Thrice-blessed are We, My Lover with Grey Eyes
Winter, Big, Brawny Wrestler of the Year
From Freedom Comes our Growth and all our Good
Put up your Lips, O Sun-Parched Earth, and Drink
Free Speech and the Constitution in the War
Fourth Stage (1920-1944)
The Testament of Charles Erskine Scott Wood
Satire
Heavenly Discourse
Marriage
Billy Sunday Meets God
"T.R." Enters Heaven
Denver Prays for Rain
Drama
Circe, A Drama with a Prologue
Odysseus: A Play in One Act
Poems from the Ranges
First Snow
Billy Craddock in Rome
Blitzen Oasis after Rain
The Cattle Camp--Night
The Sun Returns from His South-Wandering
Earthly Discourse
Sins of the Fathers
Sonnets to Sappho
Have You Forgot the Wintry Nights
Collected Poems of Charles Erskine Scott Wood
Vagabonds' Song
Aliens
Antonio Ploughs
Thick-necked Horses
Goats
A Thought
Summer
Sun Worshiper
What Shall I Say of You?
Diana
A Day in April
If Any Would for Me Build a True Bier
End Notes
Source Citations to Selections
Photograph Credits
Selected Bibliography of Works Related to C.E.S. Wood
Index