Title Abandoned: Along the Grand Canyon Author F. Eugene Barber Synopsis The Great Depression was at its peak. The rancher, his wife, and four children just barely eked out a living. This story takes the reader from almost the start of the Great Depression to a couple of years after World War Two-the hard times, the good times, the sadness, and the happiness. This story is based on true events. The author knew the main character personally. The names, locality, and dates were all changed-of course. Biography F. Eugene Barber has written several short stories, but this is his first novel. Mr. Barber has an A.S. in engineering, a B.A. in history, and an MBA. He was born on a small share crop farm in the Midwest at the start of the Great Depression and attended his first year of school in a rural school with eleven other students ranging from the first grade to the eighth. His early farm life was pot bellied stoves, coal oil lamps, chopping kindling wood, and chores around the barn and chicken yards. He lived for a short time in western Wyoming near the old Oregon Trail where his father worked on the Union Pacific Rail Road. He served in the Air Force during the Korean War and upon discharge worked in the California Aerospace industry for most of his career. He spent many weekends traipsing around the California Deserts with his wife, two daughters, and the family dog. Mr. Barber has traveled extensively all over the world, including South Africa and the Outback in Australia, and when in a conversation, he tends to compare his own ancestor's struggles in settling the West with their struggles to explore and populate those two faraway countries. His knowledge of early emigrant movements from the more settled parts of the United States to the Great American Desert and to the Oregon country far beyond the Shining Mountains has been accumulated over a period of forty years.

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