Contents -- Foreword / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Pictures of Childhood -- 2. Ponderous Milestones -- 3. Raised in a Patch of Tobacco -- 4. A One Horse Religion -- 5. Dear Home, Sweet Home -- 6. Bitterness and Sorrow Helped me Find the Sweet -- Epilogue: The Outskirts of a Desert Town -- Appendix One: The Song and Rhyme Repertoire of Effie Marquess Carmack -- Appendix Two: Things to Accomplish -- Appendix Three: Henry Edgar Carmack -- Bibliography -- Index.