More than my share : a few flashes of experience / by Starr Jenkins. 1948-1983, c1984.

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More than my share : a few flashes of experience / by Starr Jenkins. 1948-1983, c1984.

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Thirty essays and short stories, most of which were previously published between 1948 and 1983 in magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post, Air BP, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Short Stories, and Wide World. Most of the essays and stories are based on Jenkins' experience as a young man as a smoke jumper with the United States Forest Service in Oregon and Montana, and as a park ranger in Yosemite National Park. Other essays relate his experiences as a West Point cadet, and as a professor of English at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Also included are Jenkins' literary portraits of three friends: Joe Herrera, a Pueblo Indian artist, and former governor of Cochiti pueblo; novelist Edward Abbey, author of the book Brave Cowboy, later made into the film Lonely are the Brave; and Willard "Pete" Pederson, a diver with the Navy during World War II, athlete, and English professor.

[415] leaves in various foliations ; 28 cm.

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Starr Jenkins, author, was born in Chicago in 1925. After serving during World War II he worked for the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service. Received his Ph. D from University of New Mexico in 1972. In 1988 retired from the position of English professor from California Polytechnic State. Beatrice Starr Jenkins, Starr Jenkins's mother, received an M.A. in History from the University of New Mexico in 1948; her master's thesis was on José María Morelos. She wrote a biography on Morelos ...