(DOWNLOAD) "Pinacate Recon (Pinacate Travel) (Essay)" by Journal of the Southwest " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Pinacate Recon (Pinacate Travel) (Essay)
- Author : Journal of the Southwest
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 212 KB
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If it weren't for crazy Hal Coss, (1) I would have missed falling in love with the Pinacate. Even today I get goose bumps just thinking about the place. The Pinacate shaped my life. When I came back from Vietnam, where I had been wounded by shrapnel, I was having physical difficulties, plus I had to redo my junior year because I had been drafted in mid-semester. Fresh out of the Army and veteran's hospitals, I was only able to take two classes, sometimes three. When I returned to the University of Arizona that spring of 1969, my father pushed me around in a wheelchair to get me registered. I couldn't write with my right hand, and I hadn't learned to write with my left--I took my class notes with a tape recorder. Have you ever taken organic chemistry by tape recorder? I made it through and did okay, but it was hard. Soon I left the wheelchair behind. To pay my way through school and support my wife, Susan, who was also attending the university, I went to work out at Saguaro National Monument (now Park) as a seasonal ranger, starting out working for Hal. (2) I really enjoyed working with him, usually on weekends, some nights, and all holidays. In the library at Saguaro I would devour every book on plants, animals, geology, history, you name it. I read practically the whole library out there. The rest of my time was dedicated to university studies.