Description

Hardbound, 171 pages, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches

Harold Showers writes a matter-of-facts memoir, but many today would find his early life in the 1920’s and 1930’s on the Upper Green River of western Wyoming exotic and primitive. As a child and young man, Harold witnessed the power of weather, vast distance, wild animals, illness and plain hard times – things that could make a man quiestion his own survival and fear for his family.

But whether trapping for mink, leading hunters into the high peaks, packing the mail by doglsed or enjoying a Sunday picnic with fresh-caught trout and homemade ice cream, Harold and his family also managed to experience the very best a life in the mountains can offer.

Harold’s down-to-earth approach doesn’t keep him from expressing the awe and wonder he felt in the Wyoming wilderness. This book is not only a record of what it took to hang on in the Kendall Valley, but also a testimony by an early day settler who loved the land becasue he knew it so well.