Contents

• Foreword / Charles Osgood
• American Emblems. The Cords of Winter. Wind and Water. Fun on the Hoof. Under the Big Top. The Little Red Wagon. The Once and Future Fair. The Last of the Red, White, and Blue. Sentinels of the Desert. Proof Through the Night. A Stone Wall. Still Humming Along. Fenders and Flaps. Candy Clouds. For Whom the Bell Tolls. The Great American Hat
• American Originals. Landing for Lunch. Our Great Woodsman. Upright Announcements. No Large Envelopes, Please. The Heights of Technology. At the Market. Lucy. A New Dish. The Lincoln Highway. A Burst of Speed. The Barbershop Blues
• American Portraits. A Man of the Road. Lions and Tigers and Bears. Mending Their Majesties. The Sounds of Silence. A Man of Parts. Home, Tiny Home. The Swift Completion. Big Ship, Small Shed. Cold, and Colder Still
• American Shrines. Sullivan’s Island. Noah Webster’s House. Mr. DeLeo’s Monument. The Czar’s America. When Shots Rang Out. Grant’s Tomb. At the Pump. The Store That Was. The Ups and Downs of the Everglades. Hanauma Bay. Land’s End. A Railroad Palace. Rain Above, River Below
• American Makers. The President’s Shoes. Swept into Office. Philip Simmons of Charleston. A Maker of Whirligigs. Master of the Victrola. A Tune on the Chopping Block. A Cymbal of America. Turning Back the Clock. Dragonflies, Indeed. A Brush with the Past. The Strength of Sweet Grass. The Fiddler of America
• American Dreamers. With Hope in Hand. Trombone Shorty. Play Ball! And Then the Curtain Fell. By the Billion. Flowers That Fly. A Gift of Wisdom. His Big Small World. The Call of the Wild
• American Sights. Snow Geese. The Valley of the Eagles. Giants in the Earth. In the Shallows. Windblown Seeds. Key Deer. Among the Swans. A World of Ice. The Unstoppable Sand. Bundles of Blooms. Stone New Yorkers. Brief Beauty
• American Heirlooms. Heavenly Windows, Hellish Hate. Hoppin’ John. Let There Be Light. America’s Sunrise. The Weight of Progress. The Devil’s Rope. Ink in the Blood. Elephants of the Harbor. The Last of Jesse James. Wind Your Bobbin. Good Things Come in Big Boxes Too. The Towers Atop the Towers of New York. Scratched in the Landscape
• American Ways. Skipping Stones. The Ferry at Los Ebanos. The Blessing of the Fleet. A Rite of Spring. Miss Indian World. Of Horse and Man. Pilottown. The Canal. Dog Power. Little Fish, Big Buildings. Roll, Cross, and Flip
• American Notions. The Right Tool. All Downhill from Here. A Click Heard ‘Round the World. Smoke Signals. And the Cares That Hung Around Me Through the Week. The Music of the Map. Seeing the Light. Squinting Scientists. Winter’s Wild Rides. About Time. On Paper Wings. The Road Less Traveled