PART I: LAYING THE FOUNDATION

Convince me I should care about property rights even if I am not a farmer or a lumber company

Yes, there is a real problem out there; many people are being treated quite shabbily, and they are getting mad as hell and do not want to take it any more

How we came to believe "property doesn't have rights, but people have rights, including a right to property," and why we are right about this and why it is terribly important

The Tragedy of the Commons, spillovers, technological change, and other difficulties

Prologue to the battle, OR, if you think "they can't do this to me!" just watch them

PART II: MARCHING AS TO WAR:
ENVIRONMENTALISM AS RELIGION AND PROPERTY AS HERESY

How to create a monster that causes peasants carrying torches and pitchforks to storm your castle

More villagers carrying torches and pitchforks

PART III: EMPIRES OF THE WEST

Some history and geography, OR, all hell needs is water and a good system of property rights

Homesteaders, cattlemen, loggers, miners, and other shootouts, OR, Go back, Shane!

Water rights, dams, and other chicanery

Thoughts on the West and other intractable problems

PART IV: LARCENY, GRAND AND PETTY

Games people play; OR, I've got mine and with a little luck I can have yours, too

Lots of issues in a few fun-packed pages: historic preservation, coastal zones, forfeitures, rails-to-trails, and a few other things

Protection of property by the legal system, OR, Can't anybody here play this game? Plus some comments on finality, the Tucker Act shuffle, and other trickeries of the trade

PART V: SHAPES IN THE MIST

Information as property -- the wealth of the future and the future of wealth

Prisoners Dilemma, the uses of greed, and other responses to current woes