table of contents

Midwest

West of Your City

One Home

Ceremony

In the Deep Channel

At the Salt Marsh

Hail Mary

Listening

Circle of Breath

A Visit Home

The Farm on the Great Plains

Far West

Walking West

Our People

A Survey

In the Oregon Country

The Gun of Billy the Kid

Willa Cather

By the Snake River

Small Item

At the Bomb Testing Site

Lore

Weather Report

Vacation

The Fish Counter at Bonneville

Sauvies Island

Watching the Jet Planes Dive

The Move to California

Outside

Bi- Focal

Outside

Boom Town

Level Light

Two Evenings

Ice-Fishing

The Well Rising

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

Connections

Acquaintance

On the Glass Ice

Sayings From the Northern Ice

It Is the Time You Think

Sunset: Southwest

Following

Postscript

related resources

Reviews

William Stafford and His First Publishers: The Making of West of Your City and Traveling Through the Dark