Summer of Fifty-Seven: Coming of Age in Wyoming's Shining Mountains
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (993 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865343675 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dr. STEPHEN C. Later, he spent three years in Central Africa with a team establishing a new medical school. An avid outdoorsman (though born in Brooklyn), Dr. He has been Chief of Pediatrics in a remote northern Canadian health zone, and a senior professional with both UNICEF and the Agency for International Development. . Joseph resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife, Elizabeth Preble, and their dogs and llamas. JOSEPH b
About the Author STEPHEN C. Joseph resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife, Elizabeth Preble, and their dogs and llamas. Later, he spent three years in Central Africa with a team establishing a new medical school. . He is an elected member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine, and a former Executive Board Chair of the American Public Health Association. An avid outdoorsman (though born in Brooklyn), Dr. He has been Chief of Pediatrics in a remote northern Canadian health zone, and a senior professional with both UNICEF and the Agency for International Development. Joseph was also Commissioner of Health of the City of New York (his book on the early years of the AIDS epidemic, Dragon Within the Gates, was published by Carroll and Graf), Dean of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. Dr. JOSEPH began his life in medicine as Peace Corps Physician in Nepal
In the background are the ghosts of two free-trapping Mountain Men from the 1830s, still on the move. He hitches into the two-horse town of Jackson, Wyoming in a June snowstorm, and comes face to face with the Grand Teton Range, the 'peaks that shine by night as by day.' Jonas finds work in the National Park, building the mountain trail that is to shape the course of his coming-of-age. Characters larger than life fill his days and nights: Dick Robbins, the backcountry expert who can do absolutely anything, including fly; Nebraska cowboy Jim Burdock, with the trick of looking fast, but actually moving slow; the haunting, enigmatic Kitty, just out of reach. And towering above the others, Billy Jiggs from Driggs, Idaho, profane master of men, and timber, and (surprisingly) music. 'Stop the car, I mean, slow down, p
"An Adventurous Journey Back in Time" according to Marilyn J. Mason. How wonderful an experience to go back to the days of innocence and adventure. Meet a superb story teller and fine writer in Stephen Joseph who takes us through his coming of age story to meet Jim Billy, Dick, and especially those old spirits of the West. All names that shaped a deep part of who he grew to be. This book has it all--romance, adventure, nature,and of course humor--all told with remarkable descriptions. And most of all you will be surprised with the author's revealing himself to us. Don't think this is a