Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The Good-Luck River
  • River notes: Buenaventura, 1804
  • A river's heartbeat
  • The river I drink
  • River notes: Buenaventura, 1825
  • The company we keep
  • The thirsty tree
  • River notes: Buenaventura, 1826
  • Fossil creek
  • Shallow roots
  • River notes: Buenaventura, 1841
  • Who owns the clouds?
  • The water nobody wanted
  • River notes: Buenaventura, 1843-44
  • The ghost dam
  • An accidental beauty
  • River notes: Buenaventura, 1845
  • The rights of rivers
  • Epilogue: Split Mountain Canyon.