This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapters 22 and 23 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's 1996 visit to Cedar Breaks National Monument in southern Utah. The visit took place in the same year as the second Ameritrek. In this booklet, you can...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 25 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's 1995 visit to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. Although the details are disputed, there really was a gunfight at the O.K. Corral, a man named Wyatt Earp...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 3 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's 1996 visit to Florida's highpoint, Britton Hill. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. Florida's highpoint is the lowest of...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 26 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's 1995 hike to the top of Guadalupe Peak in Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas. Guadalupe Peak is the Texas highpoint, or highest naturally occurring...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 33 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's 1996 visit to Oklahoma's highpoint, Black Mesa. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. Black Mesa is the 23rd-highest...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 3 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's visit to Minnesota's highpoint, Eagle Mountain. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. Eagle Mountain is the 37th-highest...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 12 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's1996 visit to North Dakota's highpoint, White Butte. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. White Butte is the 30th...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 8 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This booklet is about the author's 1995 visit to Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of a massacre of Native Americans in 1890. You can travel vicariously to that infamous place and sample the writing at...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 10 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's hike to the top of Harney Peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota in the year 1995. Harney Peak is the South Dakota highpoint, or highest naturally occurring...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 31 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's 1996 visit to Capulin Volcano National Monument in New Mexico. The visit took place in the same year as the second Ameritrek, the subject of the main book...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 7 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's 1996 visit to Michigan's highpoint, Mount Arvon. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. Mount Arvon is the 13th-lowest...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 24 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's 1995 visit to Saguaro National Park in Arizona. The mysterious and vaguely humanlike saguaro cactus is one of the iconic symbols of the American West. They...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 29 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. Here you can read the true tale of the author's visit to New Mexico's highpoint, Wheeler Peak. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. Wheeler Peak is the 8th-highest...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 7 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's visit to Big Hole National Battlefield in Montana. Big Hole is a unit of the National Park System dedicated to preserving the site of an 1877 battle between US...
Dinosaurs were having sex on the Moon sixty-six million years ago, and Bolon didn't like it. Make no mistake about it, Bolon enjoyed a bit of the naughty now and then as much as any other healthy Goddess-fearing dragon (as they called themselves back then), but he was running an ore mine up there, by golly. His employees were refining important metals on the Moon—gold, silver, titanium, and...
Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful is the tale of Accountant Joe, a corporate cubicle rat who was told he had saved too much vacation time and had to use it up. So he did. He hit the road with a map and a camera and a notebook. He returned weeks later after driving 8,000 miles through 23 states. Along the way he found friends, national parks, Native American...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 6 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Finding the Lost River Range. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's visit to Missouri Headwaters State Park. The park is in Montana, not Missouri. The visit took place in the same year (1997) as the third Ameritrek, the subject of...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 24 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the true tale of the author's 1996 visit to Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah. The visit took place in the same year as the second Ameritrek, the subject of the main book. In...
This booklet is a sample of a full-length book. It is Chapter 36 in Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Stalking the Wild Thirteeners. If you already have that book, don't buy this booklet. This short story tells the tale of the author's 1996 visit to Mississippi's highpoint, Woodall Mountain. A highpoint is the highest naturally occurring geographic point in a state. Woodall Mountain is the 47th...