Having patrolled Yosemite for more than two decades, author and park ranger Shelton Johnson delivers this fictionalized tribute to its healing grandeur. Born in 1863 to a sharecropping family of black and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy becomes a Buffalo Soldier in the U.S. cavalry. Ultimately finding his way to the newly created Yosemite National Park in 1903, he basks in the freedom of its pristine splendor-with little beyond mountain light, campfires, and stars. "An engaging and poetic meditation on what it means to be truly free." -Booklist
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Having patrolled Yosemite for more than two decades, author and park ranger Shelton Johnson delivers this fictionalized tribute to its healing grandeur. Born in 1863 to a sharecropping family of black and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy becomes a Buffalo Soldier in the U.S. cavalry. Ultimately finding his way to the newly created Yosemite National Park in 1903, he basks in the freedom of its pristine splendor-with little beyond mountain light, campfires, and stars. "An engaging and poetic meditation on what it means to be truly free." -Booklist
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BN ID: | 2940171078928 |
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Publisher: | Recorded Books, LLC |
Publication date: | 10/14/2011 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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