Quotes:
Long ago when I was a young man my father said to me, Norman you like to write stores. and I said, Yes I do. Then he said, Someday when you are ready.you might tell out family story, only then will you understand what happened and why.
It was a world with dew still on it. more touched by wonder and possibility than any I have since known.
In 1917 World War I came to Missoula taking with it every able bodied lumberjack. leaving the woods to old men and boys.
It was a life of timber and toil. with men as tough as their axe handles and more mountains in all directions than I would ever see again.