Mountain Time / by Paul Schullery

[Kim Allen Scott]

Yellowstone National Park is a very special place on our planet, one that seems to continually enchant or enrage every new generation that comes along to discover it.  Those who love the place seem to endow it with almost magical powers, and those who hate it rail incessantly on the shortcomings of its keepers.  In this highly personal memoir, Paul Schullery tells the story of Yellowstone as he came to know it by working there as a ranger.  For those whose only familiarity with Yellowstone are National Geographic picture books, or even old Yogi Bear cartoons, this book will help you to understand what it was really like for one particularly gifted writer to live and work there in the 1970s.  (I know you will forgive me for a glowing, short review when I tell you Paul works part time in the office right next to mine and helped me a great deal when I wrote my own article comparing the establishment of Yellowstone to that of Royal National Park in New South Wales.  Thanks Paul!)