Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Genesis -- We Didn't Know There Was a Depression -- Magical Summers -- Happy Birthday, George -- God Bless You, Mr. Mapes -- Doing the Rabbit Twist -- Hockey at Heiden's Slough -- A Glorious Fourth of July -- That Magnificent Car -- An Electrifying Camp Experience -- They Called it World War II -- John Clemente and Benito Mussolini -- Thanksgiving Feast -- A Very Personal War -- Armistice Day -- Dad's Victory Garden -- Winton's Winged Warrior of WWII -- Typewriter North -- Dancing Spirits in the Mists -- It All Begins with Bobber -- USFS Gets Even -- For Shame -- The Approach of Springtime -- Going Bugs -- Canceling Out -- Duck Stuff -- Opening Day -- Some Thoughts on Fishing -- The Best Kind of Work -- My Friend the Duck Hunter -- Remembering Charles -- From Birdshot -- Pond Singers -- Late Autumn Symphony -- The Ahlgrens -- A Man Named Stanley Owl -- Some Travel by Dogsled -- First Come, First Served -- Ringing in the New -- The Ferocious Finn Found -- Living in the Land of the Ojibwe -- G.G. -- Entertaining Immunity -- The Sheer Wonder of Autumn -- Tale of a Cat -- There's Big Money in Wolf Fur (Especially If It's Walking) -- Sometimes We Go on Foot -- Speckled Trophies of Tiny Brooks -- Good Morning, Corvus -- Revenge of the Otter -- Canoe Season -- It's a Matter of Patriotic Belief -- A Tribal Matter -- Honoring a Promise to Tommy Chosa -- January Ice and Snow -- The Night the Aliens Came -- Second Time Around -- Wesley Ottertail -- Veteran's Fishing Trip -- There's Nothing Wrong with a Fish Dinner -- Recycling Grouse -- Busy -- Those with Four Legs, More or Less.