Part one. Finding the wild city. 1. Empty lots, mesquites, and parakeets
2. A wilderness of edges: Fences, foxes, and buteos ; Roads, rivers, and time travel ; Town and country ; Dementer and Dionysus ; Stress and satori ; Herons and hotels
3. Where the wild things are: Train tracks and coyotes ; Foxes, waste lands, and interstitial frontiers ; Primrose and pavement ; Portals and psychopomps ; Car dealers and animal trackers ; Edgelands, involuntary parks, and uninsurable zones ; Rain lilies and catclaws
4. Transecologies: Chupacabras and coywolves ; Waxwings and wax seals ; Yellowwood and other ghosts ; Owls, antlers, and dead animal collections ; Hot chilies and cosmopolitan genes
Part two. Rewilding domestic life. 5. Making camp: Hermits and muscle cars ; Urban birds and bachelor pads ; Sacred groves and cityscapes
6. Making a green house in the brown lands: Little house on the petroleum prairie ; Interstates, ecologies, artists, and lovers ; The architecture of cardinals
7. How to live in a feral house: Havester ants and internets ; Country living in the city ; How to make a prairie on your roof ; Snakes and fangs ; Brujas and devil riders
8. Living in the wild city: Foraging for meaning ; Vultures and pavement ; Trailer parks and ancient oaks ; Natives and invaders
Part three. Rewilding the future. 9. Blood in the land: Maoists and muralists ; Zebulon Pike and the courts of the conquerer ; Native Texans and other neighbors
10. Breaking the haze: Cities and sacrifices ; Loafers and laborers ; Cozy catastrophes
11. Wild in the streets: The big molt ; Fighting city hall ; "Nature is healing"
12. Black witches and other omens: a coda.
