John Randall Stephenson, Esq. is an attorney and author who lives in Zephyr Cove, Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He is an avid skier, backpacker, and horseman. The author is very grateful for the opportunity to finish and publish his father's stories that his father recorded so many years ago in the early 1970's and is grateful for the opportunity to share the stories with all readers of the book.