Land of the Permanent Wave

Foreword (Larry L. King)
Introduction (Steven L. Davis)
Part 1: Strange Peaches in the "Land of the Permanent Wave"

Is He Edwin, or Is He Bud?
Cops Eat Kid's Pet
Priest Taunted at Mansfield
Letter: April 10, 1963, from the Navel of Mother Europe
Jason and the Oui Oui Club (from But Not for Love)
The Land of the Permanent Wave
John Lee Wallace, Reporting from Dallas (from Strange Peaches)
There Will Be Chickens
The Hunts of Dallas
Visit to Big Earl's (from Strange Peaches)
Letter: August 7, 1969, on Dallas
The Kennedy Motorcade (from Strange Peaches)
No Day for Games


Part 2: From New York to Chihuahua

Letter: February 2, 1966, to NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle
Letters from New York, 1964-1966
The Once-Forbidding Land
Gerhardt's Farm (from Blessed McGill)
Matthew Caldwell in Houston City (from The Borderland)
Letter: May 29, 1965, on Writing Blessed McGill
Letter: September 8, 1966, on Visiting Chihuahua
The Tarahumaras: A Lonely Tribe of Long-Distance Runners
Letter: October 4, 1967, on the Publication of Blessed McGill
Going into Chihuahua (from Blessed McGill)


Part 3: Mad Dogs and Outlaws

The Best-Kept Secret in America (from Willie: An Autobiography)
The Screwing Up of Austin
Letter: December 16, 1969, on Mad Dog, Inc.
The Regenerator Erection Laboratory (from Peter Arbiter)
Letter: August 1, 1969, from Zihuatanejo
Scenes from Kid Blue ("Dime Box")
Letter: November 4, 1973, on Larry Mahan
Horsing Around with Bull
Rafting the Big Bend


Part 4: Night Never Falls

Letters to Larry L. King, 1978-1983
Scene from "Pancho Villa and Ambrose Bierce"
Scenes from "The Big Mamoo"
The Angels of Dien Bien Phu (from Night Never Falls)
Letter: March 8, 1988, to LLK, on Being "Sodbuster Two"
Backstories: Sodbusters One and Two
Letter: February 12, 1998, to LLK, on Getting Older
Showdown at the Colonial (from Billy Boy)
From Custer's Brother's Horse
How to Live Forever