In the unique genre of historical faction, this coming-of-age story and more-than-memoir type novel bridges the era of the early 1950's through today ... sharing little known facts and demonstrating that life is more interesting than plain fiction.

With one boy white and the other black in segregated Mississippi, backwoods and riverbottom adventures are too exciting to allow these motherless seven-year olds to consider the normal bigotry of the times. Childhood is grounded in mischief around Oxford's Bailey Woods and in the rural community of Taylor. The Yocona and Little Tallahatchie Rivers help shape youth and the teen years find Scott and C.B. interacting with Weekend Warriors and the Klan. Summer jobs and outdoor experiences roughhew the boys into men. Adult complications in Sin City Memphis precede diverging paths with college forestry vs. the logging woods, grad school vs. a tour in Vietnam, and professional vs. technical careers in the workplace ... all where challenges and opportunities are stretched from commonplace to the controversial. Volunteerism during retirement continues uniquely within the conservation community as senile citizenship and its heart-warming semi-acceptance at Golden Olden slip up on the two protagonists ... with a twist the reader doesn't expect.

Portrayals of secondary characters with only a tad more than their names camouflaged are powerfully close to veritable. Examples include world-renowned author, William Faulkner and under-appreciated Black pioneer of Civil Rights, James Meredith ... both with whom this author had personal experiences. Almost as much a nature book as the human nature book Yocona Puff Adder is, it reveals not only the truth about Agent Orange but proof of it from an actual experiment on one of your National Forests.

About the Author

After a 101st Airborne Division tour in Vietnam, a BS in Forestry and a MS in Wildlife Management from Mississippi State University, and a distinguished career as a federal forester and wildlife biologist, Gerald Inmon has now retired to his hometown of Oxford, MS.

But first, his professional recognition and achievements included: nomination by the Three Rivers Chapter of the Society of American Foresters as Mississippi's most outstanding forester; being bestowed the Soil & Water Conservation District's Conservation Education Award; receiving five USDA Certificates of Merit for various natural resource works; being presented The Nature Conservancy's State Public Service Award; and earning two National Taking Wings Awards from the U.S. Forest Service, one for waterfowl habitat development and the other for partnership generation.

After gaining experience as a Forest Service spokesman, conservation group leader, state-level officer of the Society of American Foresters, university-level board member and representative, court witness and former contributing editor to several newspapers, Gerald has now broken ground in the unique genre of faction.  He is repeatedly voted one of Oxford's "Favorite Living Writers" by the Oxford Eagle Newpaper readership.

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