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Go Tell It on the Mountain

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As an experienced fire lookout I can vouch for the authenticity of these stories. This book is the real thing. It was a joy for me to read the accounts of my brothers and sisters on the mountaintops. These stories bring it all back: the lonely splendors, the hair raising lightning strikes, the columns of smoke on the horizon. being a lookout, like being a lighthouse keeper, is one of the last occupations performed in total solitude. For those of us that could hack it, it was a religious experience. Alas like the lighthouses, the lookouts are going the way of the dodo. Here's a chance, readers, to see what its like to spend a summer on the mountaintop.

As a woman in my early 20's, I felt that I needed to plop myself deep in the mountains near where I was raised for as long as I could get away with it. I sought and found a Lookout position in northern Idaho, and the week before I left, I was given this book. To this day (years later), I treasure it so much that it doesn't sit out on my bookshelf. Being a lookout is an indescribable experience that only increases over the years, and the various stories and thoughts put forth in this book are truly worth reading. A real treasure to me as a Lookout, and good insight to those who might be curious.