Introduction. Stories mainly true / Joe Lockard and A. Robert Lee
Memory theatre : Owens's narratives of remembering / A. Robert Lee
Louis Owens and anti-colonial ghost dances / Joe Lockard
Rethinking wilderness : Louis Owens's wounded landscapes and eco-gothic specters / Paul Whitehouse
Louis Owens : haunting California / Chris LaLonde
Owens, California, and indigenous modernism / David Carlson
Reading Steinbeck, reading California : tracing the development of Owens's postindian aesthetics / Billy J. Stratton
Owens's Wolfsong and Kesey's Sometimes a great notion in the anthropocene age / James Mackay
Literary form and the mythic underpinnings of the sharpest sight / Alan R. Velie
"Eran muy crueles" : requirements of madness in Louis Owens's Bone game / David Moore
"The past was a white man's illusion" : the temporal continuum and trans/nationalism in Owens's Nightland and Dark river / Birgit Däwes
Nightland "no country for old men" Owens and McCarthy at postmodern high noon / Cathy Covell Waegner
"Like a clown shot out of a cannon" : humor in owens's nightland / Joseph Coulombe
"Jake nashoba went home" : tribal citizenship, belonging, and naturalization in Owens's Dark river / John Gamber
Letter to louis / Diane Glancy
Of Nalusachito and the course of rivers / Kimberly Blaeser.