The Cover for Trout Fishing in America
Another Method of Making Walnut Catsup
The Ballet for Trout Fishing in America
The Last Year the Trout Came up Hayman Creek
The Autopsy of Trout Fishing in America
Trout Fishing in America Terrorists
Trout Fishing in America with the FBI
The Shipping of Trout Fishing in America Shorty to Nelson Algren
The Mayor of the Twentieth Century
The Teddy Roosevelt Chingader’
Footnote Chapter to “The Shipping of Trout Fishing in America Shorty to Nelson Algren”
The Pudding Master of Stanley Basin
Room 208, Hotel Trout Fishing in America
A Note on the Camping Craze that is Currently Sweeping America
A Return to the Cover of This Book
Trout Fishing on the Street of Eternity
Sandbox Minus John Dillinger Equals What?
The Last Time I Saw Trout Fishing in America
The Last Mention of Trout Fishing in America Shorty
Witness for Trout Fishing in America Peace
A Half-Sunday Homage to a Whole Leonardo da Vinci
Prelude to the Mayonnaise Chapter
There are seductions that should be
in the Smithsonian Institute,
right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.
Trout Fishing in America
THE COVER FORTROUT FISHING IN AMERICA
The cover for Trout Fishing in America is a photograph taken late in the afternoon, a photograph of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco’s Washington Square.
Born 1706—Died 1790, Benjamin Franklin stands on a pedestal that looks like a house containing stone furniture. He holds some papers in one hand and his hat in the other.
Then the statue speaks, saying in marble:
PRESENTED BY
H.D. COGSWELL
TO OUR
BOYS AND GIRLS
WHO WILL SOON
TAKE OUR PLACES
AND PASS ON.
Around the base of the statue are four words facing the directions of this world, to the east