When Philbert Whomperstomper isn't scratching out a meager income from poaching firewood in the forests of Calaveras County, he's getting himself into and out of predicaments, scrapes and (as he might say) confabulations. Storyteller Dana W. Nichols has chronicled the colorful exploits of Philbert Whomperstomper, his sweetheart Grinella Gristletwit, and the other citizens of Mountain Ranch, California into this one-of-a-kind anthology of modern folktales.