Stories of a Western Wildhood

Stories of a Western Wildhood is a collection of essays that document the unruly childhood and adolescence of the author, Dick Linford, in Wyoming and New Mexico, and later his adult years in California, where he was co-founder of one of the early whitewater rafting companies in the West. Born to an distracted writer-father and a loving but overwhelmed mother, Linford experiences the glories of the Intermountain West, the gritty living conditions of a family on the edge, and the struggles to def