[5] Creel Zmundzinski,[6] a Wyoming Fish and Game warden, finds that a small patch in a roadside parking area will incinerate hunters without the correct licenses.

[7] In Pee-Wee, one of Elk Tooth's three bars, his best friend Plato Bucklew commends Zmundzinski for sending wrongdoers literally to Hell.

[11] Amongst the detritus she finds reels of the 1913 Essanay Studios film The Indian Wars Refought produced by William "Buffalo Bill" Cody.

[6] Linny is prompted to discover her hidden heritage: she reads Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, and asks her father to take her back to the reservation he was born in.

[10] He declines: "She would get involved, and after a few years of passionate activism she might fall away from it and end up on urban sidewalks in the company of street chiefs and hookers".

[7] The "man crawling out of trees" of the title is a skier with a broken leg who Eugenie Fair takes for a prowler instead of giving him aid, breaking a "cardinal rule" of the place.

[8] Greybull-born Buddy Millar[17] dislikes highways, preferring back roads, some the "serious bad dirt" of the title of the collection.