Front Cover; Front Flap; Front Matter; Half Title; Other Books by this Author; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Cast of Characters; 1. The Coming of the Owl; More Than She Came For; At the Edge of the Swale; The Painted Door; Christianity; Marital Relations; After-Supper Interviews; Gone Visiting; Improving the Younger Generation; Remembering Dead Warriors; Dried Apricots; Brooding; Turkey Talk; Guns and Gold; Kitchen Poker; The Legend of the Gold; The Calm Before; Panic and Prevarication; Things Get Sloppy; Having Studied the Ways of Animals; An Uneasy Evening; Coop's Mission, Indian-Style.
Coop's Detour ContinuesMeanwhile, Back to the Gold; Same Night at the Singers'; Keeping Order in the Kitchen; Gone Missing; Visiting Alabama; At Granny Schrimsher's Inn; Where Puny's Been; The Boys Scout Out; Meanwhile, Back at the Farm; Big Trouble at the Bawdy House; Dragging Home; Carrying the Corpse; Sibling Rivalry; Hugh's Dream; Alabama Dishes; Bell Begins His Investigation; Hugh Revives; Connell's Scouting; Some Comfort; Reckonings the Next Morning; Jailbird Talk; Driving Nannie Crazy; Freeing the Prisoners; Lickings; New Alliances; A Surprising Turn in the Investigation.
More Gossiping at the InnIn the Shadow of Death; Fishing Like Indians; Bawdy House Haints; The Call of Life at Death; Alabama Investigates; No Fieldwork Tomorrow; The Scent of Pine Needles; Preparing for the Dying; The Dying, and All Around It; Various People Pay Their Respects; The Funeral; 2. The Serach for Gold; George Hops a Ride; The Reception; Poking Around at the River; Men Get Bad News; Twilight; A Surprise Attack; The End of a Long Day; The Problems of Orphans; Hearken, O Brown Arrowhead; No Respecters of People; Darkness Falls; Check Starts Her Search; Visitations at the Bawdy House.
The Noise in the ThicketSearching; The Criminal Element Coming In; At the River; Endurance; Raising Buckaroo; A White Man's Continent; Comfort Food; A Stranger Land; Morning; Eureka!; Visiting Doc Howard; The Rescue Story; Eagles or Wolves?; Down in the Hole, Up in the Sky; New Life; On the Military Road; Turtle Is Discovered; Coming Together; The Bushyheads' Private Conversation; Coop Spreads the News to the Singers; Jake and Sam; "Where's His Woman?"; Crumbs; The Avoid-Killing Lectures; Sanders Lays Out the Tactics; Judge Parker; Alabama Wishes She Were a Man; So Does Check.
The Posse Spreads OutStash-Witching; One Down; Two Down; Stripping and Covering Up; What They Told the Women; To the Spirits; The Return of Harmony; Secret Fears; The Stone with the Ring of Gold; The Women's Plan; Ezell's Advice; The Perfect Time of the Evening; 3. Justice; The Marshals Come to Town; The Marshals Question Puny; Dennis Intervenes; Florence's Planning Is Interrupted; Wolves in the Air; Bad Food and Irritation; Another Irritated Woman; The Women Prevail; Check Is Tricked; A Dispute with the Marshals; Check Receives a Shock; Forgive and Forget?; Check Sets It Up.