THE RIGHT Rose FOR Mano

About the Book

He was only fifteen and had tried to keep his family functioning after his mothers passing. No time to attend school now he planted the garden and hunted for meat for their table. All of the time seeing anything of value disappearing from the farm. Everything going to support the drinking habit his father and two older brothers had acquired. They’d leave for town in the morning after eating what ever there was for breakfast and not be back until suppertime. He would lie in his bed in the evening and hear them argue about the problems the country was having at that time. When all he wanted was some help so they keep the farm as it had been. After cooking a meal of the rabbits he had hunted and what was left from the root cellar there was nothing left. He would have to hunt if he going to be able to cook another meal. In the morning he went down to find the only animal they had left, the old horse that he could have used to pack in a deer, gone. That was almost the last straw and the last straw was when he looked where he always left his rifle, and it too was gone.

About the Author

Born in San Francisco in 1925 a fourth generation Californian on his mother’s side. Raised in Marin County he roamed the hills and the flats of the bay in sight of San Quentin. A veteran of both Maritime Service and the Army. Serving time over seas in both Australia aboard the M.V. Cape San Antonio, Later in the War in the Philippines in the Hawaiian Division. The 28th Division, 34th Regiment, A company, 1st Platoon 1st Squad and for a time 1st Scout. HeCountyd four children working for Ma Bell 31 years and seven months in Marin and Santa Clara county. Hunted and fished from Lake Thomas Edison to the Oregon boarded in the Sierras and from Los Padres National Forest to the Trinity Alps in the coast range, burro packing with his sons. Spent seven years as a Boy Scout Leader and as an Honorary Life member of the PTA. Has lived in Riverton Wyn, Sequim Wash. And rebuilt a cabin in Klawock Alaska on Prince of Wales island, where he hunted, fished and wrote in his spare moments. He has 9 grand children, 10 great grand children plus a loved step daughter and daughter in law and two step grand children.