"Stop the car, I mean, slow down, please. Do you think there might
be any work around here, Mister?" Steve Jonas is 19 years old in
the summer of 1957, riding his thumb north and west. 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. It is the late 1950s, a more innocent and sweeter
time than the turbulent decades to come, but the realities and
aspirations of a young man in summer are as always: work,
adventure, romance, conflict. 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. In the background are the
ghosts of two free-trapping Mountain Men from the 1830s, still on
the move. As Jonas finds (and occasionally loses) his way in this
country of the heart, as the trail moves forward yard by yard, the
seeds of his future life-trail take fire, root, and blossom.
STEPHEN C. JOSEPH began his life in medicine as Peace Corps
Physician in Nepal. Later, he spent three years in Central Africa
with a team establishing a new medical school. 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. Dr. 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. 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.
Joseph resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife, Elizabeth
Preble, and their dogs and llamas.
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